A salute to journalistic idealism!

George 2022-04-21 09:01:09

It is said that people in the news media are "iron shoulders shouldering morality and writing brilliantly written articles", but now in this so-called new media era, more and more people will use so-called technical means to achieve the latter, but more and more people dare to do the former. The less.

Among these people who can write "wonderful essays", some people use chicken soup for the soul, some people use strange and fierce materials, some people use algorithm recommendations, and some people are even just washing manuscripts or second-hand dealers...

They mobilize your eyeballs with high frequency, pull your emotions, and drive your rhythm, but they have less and less time for you to calm down and think, accept more and more homogeneous content, and narrow your vision. People are getting stupider...

It is said that we live for fame and fortune. Once our media people were famous, but many of them finally transformed for the sake of profit. Therefore, we are particularly touched by such a film:

It restores the in-depth report team of the paper media under a major news event in a very news way, so that many ordinary audiences may feel that they have downplayed the dramatic conflict that ordinary movies need.

Look at others and think about yourself. In this impetuous era of media—movies are also a kind of media—we have to admire and envy this in-depth reporting team in front of the camera, not only because they won the Pulitzer Prize, I admire and envy the film team behind the camera, not only because of the Oscar.

But because:

I still remember when I took professional classes before, the teacher always mentioned news idealism. What is news and what is news ideal is nothing more than conveying objective and real power, so that everyone can feel it. I hope you will not forget your original intention.

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    Eric Macleish: I can't discuss that.

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    Eric Macleish: No.

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