09-24-2004, 09:26 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-24-2004, 09:29 AM by Occhidiangela.)
About 20 years ago, Sean Connery played a "superstar" reporter in a movie called "Wrong is Right." In the film, the star reporter is used by a few governmental types.
The superstar reporter syndrome has only gotten worse since. Mr Rather appears to have passed his "sell by date." If we presume that Mr Moore's craft is "documentary film" then he has fallen into the same trap. So too Christiana Amanpour, of whom it has been said "She gives good war."
All three of these folks miss a very important bit of news reporting's nature: it's not about them, it's about the story, it is about the events upon which they report. Likewise Barbara Walters, Ed Bradley et al.
What was the name of the song that Living Colour made into such a hit?
Cult of Personality
Yeah.
The Twenty First Century has opened its doors as "The Century Of The Drama Queen and the Attention Whore."
Oh joy.
Occhi
The superstar reporter syndrome has only gotten worse since. Mr Rather appears to have passed his "sell by date." If we presume that Mr Moore's craft is "documentary film" then he has fallen into the same trap. So too Christiana Amanpour, of whom it has been said "She gives good war."
All three of these folks miss a very important bit of news reporting's nature: it's not about them, it's about the story, it is about the events upon which they report. Likewise Barbara Walters, Ed Bradley et al.
What was the name of the song that Living Colour made into such a hit?
Cult of Personality
Yeah.
The Twenty First Century has opened its doors as "The Century Of The Drama Queen and the Attention Whore."
Oh joy.
Occhi
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete