Reporters and Reporting
Description
A brilliant program, this thoughtful and analytical quartet of videos probes the moral questions that plague journalists: What is the truth and whose truth is it? Is there such a thing as true objectivity? What does it mean when the same picture can be used to illustrate opposite points of view? What distortions are introduced by the journalist's own ego-to be first, best, most artistic, most insightful? These programs show how reporters have to contend with editors and producers who are concerned with selling their products or who want to impose a particular interpretation, and with the actors in the actual drama-who may wish to control or manipulate their story, or prevent its being told, or who distrust the journalist seeking to tell it.
Runtime
218 min
Subjects
- Mass media (887)
- Broadcast journalism (9)
- Investigative reporting (10)
- Journalism (185)
- Publishers and publishing (44)
- Reporters and reporting (16)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2012], c1989
Database
Films on Demand
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