With the advancement of communication technology, in the face of disasters, the function of the media has become more and more important. It not only records the occurrence of events, but also gradually influences the development of events. The famous war correspondent Robert Carter said that if you are not shooting well enough, it is because you are not close enough to the war. To this day, the more powerful media can extend their tentacles to the forefront of event development. For the media now, the question is not what was photographed, but what was disseminated, or in other words, what was selectively photographed. Especially in disasters, this is even more important. The mainstream media, namely television, appeared several times in the film. The description of this media has a strong political meaning. This media reports on the principle of peace and stability of the government. They showed part of the incident, but then a policeman (an interesting symbolic image) wearing sunglasses came out to explain that everything was under control and citizens should not panic. This TV strategy is a great improvement compared to complete isolation, at least it is much more convincing. Because the rise of the Internet makes it impossible to completely cover up the occurrence of events, half-truths and half-truths are more likely to be believed by ordinary people and thus play a role in calming the public's emotions. Because there is a shield to stabilize the overall situation, this strategy is often adopted by those in power, so as not to cause social panic and make the situation completely out of control. But obviously this is a short-sighted strategy, and the film also made this judgment, that is, the mainstream media’s aphasia caused the network to reveal one-sided information and panic spread by geometric orders, and finally aggravated the development of the event in an uncontrollable direction. speed.
In the face of disasters, people are very prone to panic, and this kind of emotion is very easy to spread in the group, and if not guided, it will inevitably cause complete chaos. Covering up real events can of course avoid the panic it may cause, but rumors about the state of information vacuum often take advantage of the emptiness and make waves. People’s fragility in the face of disasters, coupled with rumors, will cause chaos far greater than the incident itself. In the past few years, the SARS epidemic had such a situation: the media responded too slowly, and the transparency of the report was not enough. The media’s response to the 3.14 Tibet incident was relatively quick, but the government adopted the above-mentioned wrong strategy in the first few days, which made our media very weak in propaganda in the first few days; the propaganda of Tibetan separatists And the overwhelming development of Western tendentious reports in the international community has almost completely occupied the propaganda position-in the face of such disasters, propaganda is a war. The weakness of propaganda in the past few days has brought a lot of pressure on our country in the international community, and it has also made many ordinary western people who do not know the truth have a misguided impression. Do not complain about the rampant Tibetan independence elements in Britain and France. A few days after March 14th, the weakness of propaganda planted the seeds of the difficulty of the torch relay. In the recent Wenchuan earthquake, our media adopted a relatively transparent reporting method, and reported the current situation of the disaster area in a relatively timely and true manner, which to a large extent ensured the basic stability of the disaster area. It should be said that their performance is very good, especially before lcc issued instructions on the need to report positively.
I am sincerely disgusted by the term "negative news" or "negative news". Those who say this word painfully criticize the media, exuding a decadent atmosphere of officialdom. A disaster is a disaster, and a fact is a fact. For the description of the incident, there are only "facts" and "rumors". Of course, we should try to identify rumors and dismiss them; but facts are facts, whether for good or bad, they have really happened, the people have the right to know, and the media with conscience should also spread it. A more transparent report is more conducive to our understanding of the incident. Although it will show some bad news for the government, it also allows the public to open their eyes and dispel the rumors. Moreover, as a government, it should be supervised by the media. The media has this right and also has this obligation. As long as people do things, there will definitely be good and bad. Exposing bad things will only make the relevant officials a little unhappy and even affect their official career, but it can prompt the government to correct and avoid the same mistakes in the future. Reporting on the so-called "negative news" will not allow the people to raise the pole and carry a hoe to cause a revolution. It will only allow more people to open their eyes to supervise. What is the "negative" of such reports? Moreover, malicious incitement and attacks by hostile elements can also be avoided.
Another important medium mentioned in the film is the Internet. The protagonist of the movie also uses this medium to practice his idea of showing the truth. Of course there is a director’s rationalization in it, especially a handsome guy who said sternly, "Faced with such a situation, how can I hide from the hints and steal my life? No! I want to record the truth of the incident, and let him die after death. Later people know what happened." To be honest, this line was quite sensational, reflecting the fearless heroism and sense of justice of the brave and just American people, especially the future journalists in the United States. It's a pity that this plot is too idealistic, and it can only make young people who have never changed their blood boiled. But the narration of the film makes me feel very reasonable, "There are more and more news (on the Internet), and everyone is publishing various news in various ways. The incident has become more and more confusing, and I don’t know what to do. Believe in someone. When the news reaches a certain level, only noise is conveyed." This passage speaks out the necessity of monitoring the media. The unsupervised media will inevitably lead to chaos, because everyone believes that they have the truth and represent the truth. This conclusion is of practical significance, because at least in China, although the online media is open, most people simply obtain information from it, and most of them have not been able to screen the reliability of the information. In this case, if there is a lack of supervision, it is relatively simple to mislead the news conveyed by this open media, and only a few people are needed to make trouble. Although the actual network is regulated, bricks such as "net special", "fifty cents" and "fifth cents" are still flying around the world on the Internet. Regardless of whether such people exist or not, they express the general hope for network media supervision on the basis of transparent reporting. The disaster of the earthquake still exists, and post-disaster reconstruction is still difficult. At this time, the Internet is also full of rumors, and there is a trend of becoming more and more difficult to distinguish (this is also consistent with the research of psychology, the ability of humans to lie is almost perfect and the recognition of lies is almost at a random level). Once again, I would like to express my deep respect to the netizens who have worked so hard to spread the frontline news and those who have identified and debunked lies. They have no obligation to do this kind of work, but their conscience and sense of justice have allowed them to persist in their pursuit of facts and truth.
Shooting this film by hand-held DV greatly reduced the production cost of the film, but did not weaken the expressive power of the film, which is worthy of recognition. Of course, the film is still a bit on the surface and not deep enough, but as a commercial film with zombies as a gimmick, it is done like this.
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