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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."

Very true, and thats a major problem with journalism surrounding trans rights as well.

Im going to see the film soon. Ive seen and appreciated good films about war journalism before, but trying to play the both/no sides angle does not bode well. This film really sounds like it shit the bed in a bad way for lack of care in handling the narrative.

Heres the setting for the film about a modern US civil war, and by the way that does not matter to the film