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miércoles, 21 de octubre de 2015

Caught in the Spotlight. The gender agenda

Not one, but two, films about righteous journalists battling the Establishment and exposing lies and skulduggery are contenders for next year's Academy Awards.

One is Spotlight, which surrounds the Boston Globe's squad of investigative reporters with an aureole of heroism. For bringing to light a ghastly story of sexual abuse by priests in 2002, it won a Pulitzer Prize. In his article below Kevin Ryan complains that its obsession with the disgraceful actions of a few priests tarnished the self-sacrificing lives of the vast majority.

The other is Truth, which tells the story of the downfall of CBS anchor Dan Rather and his producer, after they used a fake document before the 2004 election to accuse President George W. Bush of lying about his military record. The producer insisted that while some of the details were wrong, the larger story was still true -- even if she couldn't prove it.

Despite their differences, the two films converge on a fundamental weakness of journalism. Basically, journalists are small-picture guys. They assemble the pieces of a two-dimensional jigsaw puzzle without understanding the three-dimensional big picture. That's part of what we are trying to achieve at MercatorNet.