Named National Anthem, the writers seem to be aiming for group consciousness. National Anthem, the national anthem, the chorus of surging crowds: The crowd is generous and the discourse is grand, but I don't know how many people will use the high-pitched singing to express the earthly desires that are small and common but truly resonant? And this time, through the camera and the screen, the group consciousness has become a prank specter that coerces the hapless individual, even if the individual is a powerful British Prime Minister. At the beginning of the story, the criminals took advantage of the openness and freedom of the Internet and the curiosity of the people to upload the video of the princess being tied up on Youtube, creating a global eye-ball effect and spreading the news far beyond one country. the sphere of government control. As a result, netizens all over the world went wild and joked: the British princess was kidnapped, and this time the kidnappers actually asked the Prime Minister to have sex with a pig in front of the world!
But although Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter publish news quickly, widely, and ruthlessly, in terms of the authority of news, online self-media is still different from traditional media. Therefore, in the face of online rumors, UKN TV, which is the protagonist of the agency, uses journalistic ethics and political considerations as a shield and does not respond. Here, UKN TV seems to be a stand-in for the BBC - a local leader in the UK and a big global TV news brand (UKN is likely to be the abbreviation of United Kingdom National "British National TV"), although it does not fully represent the country and official position, but it cooperates closely with the government , block messages. But the next moment, when the UKN news gatekeeper learned that CNN, FOX, Peninsula, NHK and other international counterparts had rushed to report, he could no longer bear it. "What world is this ("What a planet!")" After sighing, he immediately assigned the broadcast task. It is true that the Internet and TV are not completely vying for the same piece of cake: the hot discussion on the Internet should be hotly discussed. Without the response and confirmation of the traditional media, maybe it will disappear in two days? Then the international counterparts who share the same cake are not obliged to accompany UKN to keep their mouths shut. They scramble to report, which in turn confirms the authenticity of local rumors in the UK. Yes, this is the public domain of free information in the commercial age of media; where politics and morality no longer reign. This time, it is not TV that is helpless in the face of the Internet, but a specific media that is burdened with specific powers and moral constraints, stateless and obligated in the face of global information competition: the political secrets and moral forbidden areas of a country's media are disseminated through the Internet. After opening, it has become an excellent material for the headlines of other countries' media. The emergence of the latter has forced the former to take the initiative to disclose more information and embarrassingly regain the initiative - but "National Anthem" seems to have no intention of praising this game and broadening the news space. On the contrary, what you see is (sovereignty) The helplessness and embarrassment of the media's public management in the face of the globalized free market has opened the media's Pandora's box.
However, the official report of UKN, which was "beginning after a long call," was "especially half-covered": first, great effort was put into the choice of words and sentences in the news broadcast, striving for a balance between the truth of the news and the decency of the government; After kidnapping and kidnapping absurd demands, it was accompanied by opinion polls and street interviews to show that most British people understand the Prime Minister. Although the report is conservative, it has opened the real prelude to the story of this episode: after the open secret is confirmed, the camera is no longer limited to 10 Downing Street - the streets of the UK, the young, the young and the young have all become part of the story By. At first, I felt safe. But as time passed, the female voice broadcasting the news was still at a gentle pace, but she began to press her words: "There are only three hours before the deadline at four o'clock, and there is not much time left for the Prime Minister." In the shadows, aides are busy working in the prime minister's office. The Prime Minister turned his back to the camera and stood smoking in front of the window, outside the gray and white summer garden and the noise of cicadas. The male assistant stepped forward to comfort the Prime Minister: Even if the rescue of the princess failed, the mainstream public opinion should be "uncompromising". Looking around again, the male assistant stepped forward and said: Even if he (the gangster) kills her (the princess), you (the prime minister) will not get blood on your hands. This is the bottom line. (“If he kills her, there is no blood on your hand. Bottom line.”)
However, the same stance of the public and the Prime Minister himself was dramatically reversed in the next minute: the working UKN TV staff received a video of the "Princess Severed Finger" with a ring and the Princess's finger being cut off, which is very likely to cause viewers. The emotionally disturbing video was immediately made completely public. Of course, the TV station did not forget its usual practice, and broadcasted public opinion polls and street interviews. This time, the polls were extremely unfavorable to the Prime Minister: the public turned to sympathy for the princess, and the rescue of the princess became the most important goal. It's impossible to give in. Compared with the cautious first, UKN's second report is suspiciously lacking in official consideration and professionalism, but it achieves a dramatic turn in the story and pushes the plot to a climax: the public opinion, amplified by the mass media, puts the Prime Minister in front of the Prime Minister. Under the pressure of Wan Jun, the veiled threat to the safety of the Prime Minister's family by the frosty female assistant became the last straw that broke the camel's back. As four o'clock approached, the plan to rescue the princess failed, and a black screen appeared on TV screens across the UK, with a line of subtitles prompting the audience: The Prime Minister will make an "indecent" move next, and strongly advise viewers to turn off the TV. But who turns off the TV? When the Prime Minister appeared on time, the audience gathered in front of the TV in the tavern raised their glasses or clenched their fists and lowered their arms. The bursts of cheers and laughter broke out in the crowd, in sharp contrast to the solemnity of the Prime Minister himself. The prime minister took off his trousers and walked to the sow. The camera turned to the audience. After a collective exclamation, classical music replaced the noise. The audience's expressions no longer laughed. Some people frowned, some grinned in surprise, and some unconsciously used their hands. Covering their mouths, someone closed their eyes in pain, bowed their heads, shook their heads or turned the other way, while the Prime Minister's wife sat on the bed, staring at the screen, hugging pillows, expressionless. An hour passed, and the prime minister on the TV was sobbing. A female audience member couldn't bear to watch any more. She raised her hand to turn off the TV, but was stopped by a colleague next to her: "It's history, this. (We are witnessing history)". Sometimes you have to admit, the cruelty of human nature.
(In addition, there are some plots related to the media, which are worth pondering and scrutinizing:
1. The female assistant is preparing to sell the package without telling the Prime Minister: In case the princess has not been rescued before 4 o'clock, the picture of the kidnapper's request will be broadcast, but the characters on the picture will be broadcast. The pornographic male star dropped the bag and used technology to replace the prime minister's face. Unfortunately, before the porn star entered the studio, it was photographed by an unwitting staff member with his mobile phone and posted on Twitter, thus leaking the secret, which led to the following gangsters "cutting off" "Princess finger scene.
2. Malaika, a female reporter from UKN TV, used her mobile phone to seduce officials into revealing secrets. After successfully finding the possible hiding place of the gangster, Malaika rushed there alone and took pictures with her mobile phone, but was almost chased and shot by the commandos as a suspect.
3. At 3:30, the kidnappers had released the princess, but the streets of England were crowded, and everyone gathered in front of the TV with bated breath. Dressed in a very striking green dress, the princess walked weakly on the Millennium Bridge in central London, but no one noticed. It seems that in real life whether the princess is saved or not is no longer news, the biggest news is whether the Prime Minister and a sow will appear on the TV screen at four o'clock. )
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