2015 passed quietly. Looking back at the blockbusters in the North American market, the five most successful films at the box office were "Fast and Furious 7", "Avengers 2", "Jurassic Park", "Inside Out" and "Star Wars 7". But the Oscars for Best Picture have always been judged from an academic lens. At the moment of entertainment to the death, the seventh art is infinitely approaching sensory stimulation today, an excellent film is not simply a victory at the box office.
Spotlight was a feature film that cost only $20 million and grossed just $59 million. It doesn't have fancy special effects, and it doesn't have high production costs. Since it is a news industry movie, the contradictions in it are relatively common sense, and the rhythm is not as fast as commercial movies. (I'm ashamed to say that I read it three times.)
The story is about "Spotlight," a column for the Boston Globe, whose team followed a long-hidden case of sexual harassment of a parish by a Catholic priest. children in. Although they thought it was just a small task at first, they soon discovered that there was a series of events behind it, involving hundreds of victims, and the church had privately compensated the victims and sent people to cover up these crimes. As the investigation deepened, they found more evidence of the conspiracy, not just the clergy, but the atrocities were being staged just outside Boston, and around the world. With their objective and detailed reports, they uncovered the church's shady story and enabled the children who were sexually abused to receive real salvation.
Simple, yet realistic. Boring is also thought provoking. Especially 9 months after I joined the company, it made me think more about journalism. Aside from the novelty and authenticity of news, as a branch of the field of communication, it at least shoulders the responsibility of making this society a better place.
What is the news The
news is new and people should know what they want to know but don't know.
News value refers to the social needs condensed in news facts, and is the objective reason for the existence of news itself. basic properties.
Okay, let's talk people. I've been paying more attention to today's headlines these days. The slogan of today's headline is: what you care about is the headline! Yes, the audience of news must be the public. Especially for traditional media, as a product of the mass communication era, the old theory of "bullet theory" will be eliminated sooner or later.
I do not exclude that the media is the mouthpiece of an interest group. Many people slander the party media because they have not seen the inside story of the commercial media. The crows in the world are always generally black, and the moon that foreigners see is no different from what we see. But the scary thing is that communication sacrifices authenticity in order to achieve the so-called purpose. A media agency without credibility is like a child who often lies, no one will believe it. Trust is the most basic dependency between people. In today's world where a unified voice is the truth, blindly letting the audience believe their own lies is ignorance.
I used to be a good young man with some news ideals. There is no way to express the ideal in words, but when my uncle asked me whether to choose news or advertising, I chose news without hesitation. I give up creativity because I prefer to see the objective and real society. No matter what the times are, the power of journalists is to promote the development of society in a better direction.
News planning or planning news
I agree with news planning and reject planning news. The reporter's position is behind the event, rather than finding an angle to cater to mainstream values.
Just like a plot involved in the film, the "Focus" team chose not to publish news before they had collected enough evidence of the priest's sexual abuse of children, which was actually news planning. Some media pursue the novelty too much and ignore the authenticity, and the content they produce often slaps their own face. In the face of news, the choice of how to report, how to report, and when to report are all determined by policy makers.
But the truth is always the truth.
There is no angle, there is an objective existence.
PS: I don't say this because I'm a print media reporter, but after watching "Focus", I am even more convinced that print media is not dead. From a purely technical point of view, the network, equipment, and speed of the United States are not known to be a few blocks away from certain countries, but the newspapers still exist, which shows that social development has its own laws. It will come back to a certain extent.
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