奶油咪咪的喵言貓語

This is a rather serious movie concerning the role of media. It happend in the 50's where a politian's anti-communist measure stirred up quite a storm. The anchor of CBS newstation taked on issue.

This movie began with the anchor talking about television broadcast should bear a more meaningful role rather than just entertaining audience. Instead of a more neutral stand, this anchor used "excerpts from McCarthy's own speeches and proclamations to criticize the senator and point out episodes where he had contradicted himself. The anchor knew full well that he was using the medium of television to attack a single man and expose him to nationwide scrutiny, and he was often quoted as having doubts about the method he used for this news report."

What interestes me about the movie is not the history but how the media has the power to edit news material, take words or picture out of context and then us it to twist general public's opinion. Nowaday, this is evident on TV espeically during political power struggle. It's quite an ugly scene to see reporters' non-objective comments toward events on TV. The chaos in society is fueled by this kind of un-professionalism act.