The power of the media

Arnold 2022-04-20 09:01:06

In the highly developed Internet + self-media era, the decline of paper media seems to have become inevitable, but the film "Focus" shows us the power of newspapers. It is not so much the role of the newspaper as it is the power of the media people to pursue the truth. As a person, the reason to pay attention to the news and to pay attention to things other than oneself is nothing but the desire for the truth. The more attention-grabbing and appetizing a cover-up is, what's more deplorable than being kept in the dark. Why is it so important to return to the original truth, because we hope that this society will be fair and just, like in the sun, we hope that the bad people will be punished and not go unpunished, and we hope that history will not repeat the same mistakes, the suffering of the predecessors, and not let the future generations suffer Once again, but the public has such low requirements, some people always delay or cover up the truth for reasons of evasion, fear, face, immunity, etc., and this has become the privilege of some people.
An event that has been covered for a long time. Many of the parties involved are over fifty years old. Will the experience of their youth be forgotten? The film tells us that they will not forget, and that people's lives will be changed because of their childhood experiences. Some people will say why re-opening the scars and asking for trouble. Like many of our historical events. Let it pass. Yes, people should not go forward with a burden, especially some things are not their fault, and they are hurt and can't say, this is the most embarrassing thing. Because they are facing a high power - religion. When people go to church and listen to the preaching of the pastor, they want to entrust their hearts and get help and comfort, but some people use this to achieve their own tools to infringe on others. If they do bad things, they will always leave clues, and there will always be people who say it. , there will be people with conscience on both sides. This is also when society is on the verge of collapse, there are always some people who stand up, and the few media people in the movie shoulder their due responsibilities and responsibilities. To put it harshly, the job of a media person is to remove excrement. Therefore, in the 1990s, the " excrement removal" movement became popular in the United States, which exposed corrupt elements and unscrupulous capitalists, and provided a foundation for the healthy development of the society in the future.
On the first morning after the newspaper was released, the phone calls in the "Focus" room, like one after another, were the best compliment and relief to those media people. Their efforts were not in vain, and I also thanked the movie. People continue to tell us this story more than a decade later, and let us know that we need to speak up when we are unfairly and hurt. Everyone kept their mouths shut and could only become the accomplice of the tyrant.

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  • Gracie 2021-10-20 19:00:59

    Get rid of all horse-grabbing and curiosity, use extremely calm and restrained expressions to counteract prejudice and sentimentality, secretly accumulate energy and peel back layers, such as a solid and responsible news report, leaving judgments and emotions to the audience, and insisting on a realistic attitude makes people admire. The closing subtitles encourage more attention to investigative reporters and ask the victims to speak up. After the report is over, you can't stop thinking. Isn't this the meaning of news?

  • Devyn 2022-03-23 09:01:09

    If you want to find the darkness, try the brightest place first. From physiology to psychology, a system that has always been built around sex and reproductive gods, the rationality of its rules, and the appearance of rules that subvert the rules. In an endless war, all the details between the lines in the mystery, all the invisible levels waiting to be solved...The rule of the game is: good and evil will be reversed lightly as always, cancer cells will never be completely cured, the rules set by nature .

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    Walter 'Robby' Robinson: [quieter than before] I just like to clarify things.

    Phil Saviano: Maybe you should have clarified it five years ago when I sent you all of this stuff! It's all... right here!

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    [waits for two cops to pass by, then continues]

    Mitchell Garabedian: ... taking little boys up to the rectory bedroom. So he's appalled, all right? And tells the bishop about it. The bishop threatens to re-assign him... to South America.

    Mike Rezendes: Jesus.

    Mike Rezendes: Yeah. So, fast forward thirty-five years. Benzovich reads that Geoghan has been charged with molesting hundreds of kids. So, he feels guilty. He calls me.

    Mike Rezendes: So, you have testimony of a priest telling his superiors about Geoghan in '62?

    Mitchell Garabedian: [shakes his head] No, I do not. Because when I call Benzovich in to give a disposition, he comes in with a lawyer.

    Mike Rezendes: Wilson Rogers!

    Mitchell Garabedian: Right. And suddenly, Father Benzovich has a very foggy memory. Can't remember anything. He's useless. So, I go back to work, I forget about it, whatever. Until about a year ago, I find an article about a priest who warned church officials about Geoghan.

    Mike Rezendes: Benzovich went to the press?

    Mitchell Garabedian: Yeah. Local paper, Patriot-Ledger. Nobody saw it. But now I got Benzovich on record. So, I file a motion to depose Benzovich a second time. And Wilson Rogers, that smug son of a bitch, files a motion opposing my motion. And that's when I have him.

    Mike Rezendes: Have him how?

    Mitchell Garabedian: Rogers opposes my motion, so I have to make an argument as to why I'm allowed to depose Father Benzovich a second time. Okay? But this time, I'm allowed to attach exhibits. You follow what I'm saying?

    Mike Rezendes: The sealed documents?

    Mitchell Garabedian: Yes! I can attach the sealed documents that I've gotten in discovery, Mr. Rezendes, the same documents your paper is currently suing for.

    Mike Rezendes: You're shitting me!

    Mitchell Garabedian: What? No, no, I'm not shitting you! So, I pull out the fourteen most damning docs, and I attach them to my motion. And they prove everything. Everything! About the church, about the bishops, about Law...

    Mike Rezendes: And it's all public! Because your motion to oppose Rogers' motion...

    Mitchell Garabedian: ...is public, yeah. Exactly. Now you're paying attention.

    Mike Rezendes: So, I can just walk into that courtroom right now and get those documents?

    Mitchell Garabedian: No, you cannot. Because the documents are not there.

    Mike Rezendes: But you just said they're public.

    Mitchell Garabedian: I know I did. But this is Boston. And the church does not want them to be found. So, they are not there.