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ScazarMeltex posted...

I haven't seen the film yet though I plan on doing so. My understanding is that the journalist characters are portrayed as being neutral and impartial observers or wt least attempting to be. (If I'm incorrect here people who have seen the film can correct me) Which I take issue with. I have an problems with the idea that journalism, especially war journalism, should be inherently neutral.

Robert Evans, who is extremely critical of the modern state of journalism put it something like this "if one group is claiming that it's raining and another claims that it isn't, it's not your job as a journalist to report both sides claims uncritically. It's to go outside for yourself and see if it's raining or not and report on that, who is lying about it, and why."

buy they arent. They have a better relationship with the western forces than they do with the presidents side and they talk about the shit the president doesnt throughout the movie.

people saying both sides are digging their head into the ground. What actually happens is you see how journalist act with competing sides to get the scoop, which is absolutely different from how you and others make it out to be.