Just as when humans invented the automobile, the carriage industry declined rapidly. While Twitter’s smug financial statements leaked, this year was flooded with grief in the newspaper industry. With the closure of one newspaper after another, this media empire is dying, and the next one might even be Boston Global. All the bigwigs are struggling to grasp the last straw, and even bow to Amazon's upstart Kindle in a nearly humiliating posture. Even so, it is still not optimistic.
so what?
Times have changed.
We have all kinds of blogs, twitter or other microblogs. We are all journalists. We have an incomparably powerful human search-even as long as we don’t involve minors, we are protected by the Bill of Rights. A place called Ningxia in an evil country called to stop this, but it was nothing more than a praying man's arm blocking a car and shaking a tree. Newspaper, you are out.
So there is a movie like state of play.
The main theme of this film lies in the editor-in-chief’s sentence "The real story is the sinking of this bloody newspaper". Yes, the newspaper in this film is like an old dog dying. The director was begging for mercy, hoping to enjoy more warmth in front of the fireplace; like an old and frail actor bowing repeatedly at the curtain call of the last performance, eager to save the overwhelming applause in his memory. Therefore, this film attempts to use a series of details to evoke a little memory of the uncrowned king era that has passed: Washington Global, a political scandal, (the magical power is extremely powerful, brewing conspiracy to despise all public welfare) Corporation, (for public welfare) The essence of the guise is the star politicians who have tried to manipulate the public opinion to obtain political capital, (who are willing to put their wealth on reporters at the risk of their lives) "deep throat", and (abiding by professional ethics and overriding professional ethics) Love, friendship, money and personal safety) heroic reporter, even the Nixon face on the wall of the conference room-the director fears that the audience will be immersed in the plot and forget the infinitely glorious era and that era Here are the watchdogs of the American people’s philanthropy and the political ideals of building a nation—The Washington Post, Asperger, Bernstein, Woodward, etc.
The real negative role of this movie is not the congressman played by Ben Affleck, nor is it an evil arms company, or a corrupt party whip, but a blogger who draws on low-level tastes and self-depraved TV news. , Newspaper peers. Obviously, the biggest interference with the protagonist’s team comes from them, not the seemingly powerful, but stupid, incompetent arms company that makes $40 billion a year—from start to finish, they are even just Several extremely useless intimidations were made by individuals. But those blogs and TV news were circulated step by step by Affleck, and then let the editor-in-chief put all the pressure on the protagonist's team.
"Thou shall know the truth, cause the truth shall make thou free", this sentence is not only written on the wall of CIA Langley headquarters, but also at the core of American political wisdom. In this movie, the main battlefield of the biggest power struggle is in front of the front page of newspapers, TV screens and monitors. The channels through which the people obtain the "truth" have undoubtedly increased by several orders of magnitude compared to 300 years ago, but the quality of the "truth" obtained by the people is on the contrary diluted a lot. Blogs and TV news prefer who and who engaged in 3P, Love killing and a night out of handsome guys and beautiful women. It is true that from Japan in the Edo period to the present convenience book, these rhymes are the most catchy, but when blogs and microblogs dominate the mainstream of media channels, a politician who is proficient in attention manipulation may gain more power. The independent thinking, rigorous, and in-depth "scraping" may no longer adapt to the new business model. This is also a picture that the director of the film is trying to construct. You can think of it as unfounded worry or naked intimidation, but this is what the director is trying to intimidate the audience:
times have changed, who can guard our right to know in the future?
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