媒体也是生意，怎么赚钱怎么来，包括拉赞助，拉广告，拉捐款。美国的主流媒体也得这么做，不然关门大吉。媒体人相应地要搏眼球拉听众和观众，宣扬正义和揭露阴暗是博眼球的副产品。这部电影开始让我对媒体产生了疑问。DUSTIN HOFFMAN 主演的 MAD CITY。Its plot from wiki：
After being sacked from his job at a museum, former security guard Sam Baily returns to the place with a shotgun and dynamite and takes his former boss Mrs. Banks and a number of children (at the museum on a school field trip) as hostages. Local television journalist Max Brackett is in the museum using the restroom after an interview with the curator about financial difficulties. He becomes directly involved in the hostage situation, acting as Baily's intermediary to the outside world and the police.
Baily accidentally shoots a friend of his, Cliff, who's still working there as a security guard, sending him to the hospital. He later fires the weapon again, frightening the children and becoming increasingly unstable as he takes caffeine pills to stay awake. Along with the young intern coworker Laurie among the growing media circus outside, Brackett reports the inside story exclusively on television, reviving his career. By being free to come and go, he negotiates with a national network and its star news anchorman, Kevin Hollander, with whom Brackett has an unhappy history.
Baily wants the police to let him return home to his wife and kids, refusing to accept that he's going to jail. Brackett, on the other hand, makes a deal rather than let Hollander have the story, prompting Hollander to publicly accuse Brackett of prolonging the crisis and endangering the children. Laurie then betrays Brackett, proving that, like him, she's willing to do whatever it takes to further her own career.
When his friend Cliff dies, Baily starts to realize he's lost everything. Baily and Brackett allow the situation to worsen until the police finally have had enough, issuing a five-minute ultimatum to Baily for release of the hostages. Baily lets the children and Mrs. Banks go. He also sends out Brackett to try to convince the police to put down their guns so he could personally usher out Baily. But rather than face prison and his wife Baily locks the museum doors on Brackett, who's outside trying to get the police to listen.
Brackett tries to get him to come out, but Baily ignores him. Brackett is unaware that Baily has decided to set off his explosives, committing suicide. The blast knocks Brackett off his feet and into the parking lot, sending debris everywhere. As reporters surround Brackett to ask about Baily, all he can say is, "We killed him," referring to how the media handled the situation.
推荐这部老片子。
让我彻底对美国主流媒体失去信任是2016年的大选。我原本经常听 NPR 的，可是它大选前后一边倒的报道厌恶。举个栗子。关于墨西哥，NPR 曾经报道过那里毒贩猖獗和因此而生的暴力犯罪，它报道的目的是揭露和同情。而当床铺提出严控边界，防止坏人入境时，NPR 却说无需严控，说那一边想过来的都是善良守法追求美好生活的人。对芝加哥这类城市的报道也是如此。
