Si Dao is awesome. After reading it, he realized that he shot it. The rhythm is so steady that he is indeed a veteran. Coincidentally, just after watching it and thinking about the current state of the media, NetEase Cloud pushed a song of Diga's "Light of Humanity" (a very emotional and warm melody), and I almost cried at that time.
It can be said that in the history of human journalism, the events of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate are of epoch-making significance. I remember Professor Li Bin of Tsinghua University's "Introduction to Communication" when he talked about these two events. Constantly, as a reader, I read it with relish and amaze me. To a certain extent, it has established a boost for me to like communication studies and journalists. I can imagine the importance of these two events.
It is worth pointing out that the director did not choose the Post's more famous Watergate incident, but instead used the Pentagon leaked documents as a supporting role, naturally with ulterior motives. Starting from the film itself, although the Washington Post is not the first to be exposed, its situation at that time has the most story. When the Zhengzhi News Group went public, there was political pressure from the federal court; business crisis; there is also the gender power pressure from the patriarchal society faced by Graham, who is the only female reporter. When these three pressures converge on one person, Si Dao also just gave A close-up - Graham's mouth trembled for a long time, and finally said "let's go", all the emotions burst out at this moment, of course, a female character alone is not enough to support such a huge narrative system, so the revealer Ellsberg, editor-in-chief Bradley, matchmaker Bag Deacon, including various dissidents, jointly set off and sublimate the theme.
Jumping out of this film, Director Si and the two Oscar actors made this film in a very short time, and it turned out that the "Washington Post" was chosen as a supporting role, and it was launched at this time in 2018. I agree with the analysis of a film reviewer. The situation of independent female reporters alludes to Hillary (the traditional media is an elite position, and most of them support Hillary in the general election), Nixon's suppression of the news (in fact, it is not the case, he started It is in favor of the exposure of the incident, because it has no great impact on his political performance, and he is not extremely unfriendly to the news) It naturally alludes to Trump, and in fact it is the same. In the second half of 2018 after Trump took office, he himself The "Fake News" award, awarded to elite traditional media like CNN, gradually provoked a war with the media, and the freedom of the press was justifiably mentioned again. I remember that the Oscars in 2017 also seemed to be about news, right?
It is indeed difficult for the current media to survive. Even in foreign media with a higher degree of relative freedom, the news of traditional media layoffs is almost the norm. The Washington Post itself has laid off hundreds of people in 2018. It seems that the entire traditional media circle has laid off employees. Thousands of people, coupled with the prevalence of populism in the new media environment, and the competition for users with traditional media representing elite thinking has reached a white-hot stage.
In China, everyone knows clearly that I have been reciting Xi’s news concept since I took the postgraduate entrance examination in 17 years. In the past two years, he has also paid more attention to the media, and various learning speeches have continued. The direction is obviously obvious, setting the tone for the news media and saying that reporting real and objective news is likely to be a trap of the neoliberal ideological trend, thus providing a formal basis for "news to serve the party and the country, the mouthpiece of the government, and to promote the positive side of the people". Rhetoric paves the way.
Against this background, investigative reporting has almost disappeared in name only, and Wang Keqin, the first Chinese investigative reporter, is no longer there. In 2017, there was another measure to strictly control new media. The "Internet Information Service Management Regulations" were promulgated, and all new media with editorial rights were included in the scope of government supervision. The government without editorial rights and qualifications can invite you at any time. Drinking tea, this "Curiosity Daily" is estimated to be like this. It just finished rectification some time ago, and now it has stopped for three months. It's really speechless.
However, former investigative reporters have found a roundabout way, which I also yearn for very much - non-fiction writing, starting from individual typical events, and showing the problems of a society or era by describing individual encounters. Of course, it is too obvious and also killed. , such as the one in "Three Harmonies". How is the future going, I don't know, will the news be good? Same as mine - no light in sight.
That's why I said that when I heard "The Light of Humanity", I was very touched.
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