Analysis of the movie "Kill the messenger"
Gary Webb A journalist who worked with the San José Mercury New newspaper, triggers a scandal by putting a research journalistic work in order to reveal and publicize the truth.
This journalist never imagined that when he did that investigation not only his life, if not that of his family, he would change completely.
This shocking story of journalism, bribery and corruption, based on a real event written by Pulitzer Gary Webb. The case that made a turn to the life of the journalist began in 1990, when the reporter despite putting both his profession and his own life at risk, begins his search for truth from California prisons, the villages ofNicaragua, and in Washington.
Unexpectedly everything changes when he encounters a woman who had maintained a relationship with one of the cocaine traffickers, who collaborates granting a series of data from a grand jury session. Thus, that it is running along its investigation with the origins of this underworld of drug trafficking in the streets of Los Angeles.
Thus finding various sources which spinned the precise information for the investigation he was initiating.
As the information was obtaining, the journalist was threatened, something that is currently being given, since the information is simply or manipulated or threatened so that the truth is not revealed. And it is what happened in that film, but Gary armed himself with value and even knowing the threats he received, he decided to publicize the people the relationship between drug trafficking and the CIA.
However, seeing the great reception that obtained the information that Gary reveaWhat had been revealed, was false, even said official sources of which Gary said they had given him the information.
The film’s approach basically analyzes the protagonist as a journalist who fights in his effort to represent the right to transmit the truths to a society where the interwoven of government chains is hidden below the table in his eagerness for motivations of power of powerand selfishness with drug trafficking.
However, the film is not the specific case that addresses crime and of course it could have been something different, it describes how the media have been sold in a way either by fear of repercussions or any situation, they areSimply at the service of the most powerful, so it could currently believe that the primary task of modern journalism is to inform, interpret and guide the society of which it is part, but this is something superficial because the complex social relationship in thethat the media have the double role of being production units and players of those who manipulate the situation.
As the film reveals from the beginning the relations between power and the press have been manipulative, tortuous, so a poor background analysis is issued and for being directed to the government or organized mafias.
Journalism is a trade, a profession must be an impartial, truthful objective, which leads to those who exercise it to permanent contact with power. The fact of showing reality, of cutting it, means assuming a commitment to that reality and adopting an ideological position to reflect it. As the film reflects journalism is a primary research task today. Who chooses this trade must always reject the first version of the facts.
Submitted our character to the pressures of his newspaper that, generally, is not directed by journalists and exposed to the vicissitudes of political power, he must seek a balance that places him as a bearer of "the truth" with the greatest degree of objectivity. And thus does not avoid the confrontation with power, between the "official truth" and "the news" that is inevitable.
That is why the critical analysis of not believing in conspiracy theories, but in conspiracies that have no theory, seeking the truth of the matter and not the news, putting between said what represents the security of a nation, and the thin lineBetween the power of cocaine traffic and alliances between governments, a great truth that reveals the billionaires funds that are handled as a result of this and their applications in different areas of the same countries such as sophisticated high -tech armaments for even warbetween posters.
The expectation grows when the truth comes to light, and you have to make the decision to do, with the saying: the truth is in your hands, where investigative journalism begins and at the same time that the manipulation triggers from its originsoverlapping people who issuing laws and regulations begin to compromise the law, knowing what this produces.
Determine what has to be done, with a truth that will produce consequences, not only to a powerful nation, but personally, such as threats to your own integrity, that of your family and what has to do with your career. Face a goliath who daily introduces tons of kitchen through the borders and filters security. This puts your own fear of what you should face and the support with which one actually counts by not having protection in the laws.
Therefore we not only see a dangerous situation, but an imminent reality. That in recent days, it is exposed in different parts of the world. And this has ceased to be news and become a great truth, which implies the powerful and monstrous posters of drug trafficking, which as they are exposed reach such magnitude, from the small streets of the suburban neighborhoods where thousands of young people, including fromThe great powers are exposed and are the basis of this monster that affects the health of millions in the world.
Being as we see in the film, networks that cover countries from where these types of negotiated are manipulated, even from prisons where the leaders of that can follow not only their life of comfort but manage their businesses according to their personal interests, inThe largest cocaine networks and mafias.
In this way it looks as the journalist wishes to raise awareness in how society knowingSomething related to this matter would be time to take serious corrective and stop supporting this system that causes only benefit to your interests.
We can then conclude that the movie "Kill the messenger", beyond developing his plot and going straight to the grain, proposes real arguments, since it is based on a real story, which as mentioning tries to reveal the true role he must playA journalist, revealing the truths of the events that harm society, without fear of reprisals personally or in their family environment.
It also reveals the secret secret of how governments that manipulate the security of their borders, for harmful project, although the laws are severely applied in these developed countries, the consent of those involved and victims of that, asThey are the origins of this misunderstood business, world monster of the drug empire that so much harm young and people without distinction of races or nationalities.
Killing the messenger, is an expression that proposes the involved in exposing a reality, ending this person. And this is demonstrated by this film, the protagonist ends up in depression. What without a doubt makes it clear, what is to face a huge obstacle, want to report how this base of criminal and drug organizations is spin, such as posters, who despite not ending the life of the journalist,They plunged him into such depression because he could not end this serious situation that will continue to advance in worse, in abysmal depths.
If governments are unified to the fulfillment of the laws of a nation, and even more severely to what has to do with cocaine traffic, without a doubt, despite not being able to end the root of the matter, measures could be takenKeep limited to this form of negotiated and that increases this type of life in the increasingly stronger posters.
Likewise, severe measures that are exemplified must be executed so that those who reach the different positions of power in governments do not access the temptation to be involved in illegal profits, covering in their positions so that this traffic could freely have fluidity.
Without a doubt, this story describes the fundamental thing that is for a professional in journalism, being objective and being impartial, for the real results and even at the expense of their own interests to denounce all kinds of outrage to the laws and the exposed vulnerable groupsTo unprecedented abuse.
The information should not be manipulated at the convenience of a certain group, rather the impartial being, as we saw in the video will help us achieve our goal and defend our professional ethics, despite the fears and difficulties that this could represent or cause us.
Thus, in context of what a journalist represents, he must be loyal to his purpose of maintaining and transmitting the truth to all people.
And it is the film’s proposal to kill the messenger, because he must be clear about his position and professional ethics. What implies going to look for the truth, not hearing or superficially doing so, without sparing efforts, resources or energies, making sacrifices that even risk in certain cases, life itself. Which is a fact, it has been known about many cases where the partial or impartial being will always have an impact on the form of governments, for the death or disappearance of journalists who have fulfilled their work in a self-or -diligently or diligently.
We can then say that the work of a journalist will always be to say and spread the truth, make sure of it with evidence, not theories. The ideal is for journalism to make us knowing the truth, and not of advertising income, and that they determine what theme we must or may not address, hence the character Gary Webb looks like an endangered journalist.
Also lose the fear of being despised for telling the truth or putting your finger on the sore so that the truth is known by all. From there, we learn from the film, not as crime is organized, but as for the fear of repercussions we can give in to our ethics. Thus leaving the media manipulation among the most powerful.
In short, we can highlight and put into practice the work that the journalist has as we analyze in the film, it is the only one that is played with the truth, and who decides to transmit it to the light, without distinctions. We even remember that the article was later denied by the same journalistic entity in order not to have problems with this organized group. Hence, our correct and decisive position would be to decide what part we will be.
This example of life, ethics of a journalist without fear of falling, even in the opposition of his own colleagues and media. The great truth that is transmitted as false, due to the manipulation of the entities, but that shows that the truth will always triumph.
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