Today in class I've seen " Absence of Malice" of Sydney Pollack with the late Paul Newman. The son of a mobster is being investigate concerning the murder of a union leader. This movie made in 1981 is still contemporary despite the facts that newspapers all around the world especially in Western countries are dying. Newsrooms become smaller than ever.
The movie shows how a journalist can be manipulated. Indeed many journalists are more PR than real journalists. They are supposed to seek the truth in theory. In the real world they are some kind of puppets and above them government and big companies are pulling the strings. Of course in this movie or in l'affaire Julien Dray, it is not serious. When journalists are manipulated in order to prepare the opinion to go to war, that is a different matter.Thousands may be millions of lives are in danger. Indeed concerning the Iraq War journalists all around the word especially in the States and in Britain have been successfully manipulated.
However it also the job of journalists to sell newspapers or to write or broadcast a good story;how do we judge the quality of a source especially if it's from the police or the government?How do we investigate with limited resources?
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