Despite its blurred lines and murky methods, The Ambassador is an anxiety-producing, sometimes fantastic emanation from the future. It is of a genre whose time is nearly (but not quite) here, for better or worse.
Reality Check
06:50 AM - August 13, 2012
Collapsing the line between documentary and fiction
A new film, The Ambassador, exhibits “performance journalism,” a combination of art and reporting
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Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
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Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
In one tweet
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
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The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
http://bruggertheambassador.blogspot.com/ explains why THE AMBASSADOR is not a documentary nor a mockumentary, and reveals the inconvenient truth behind the story about what was left out.
#1 Posted by Don Quichote, CJR on Mon 13 Aug 2012 at 01:12 PM
I'm reminded of what Hunter S Thompson said of Nixon in his hilarious obituary:
" Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism-- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place. He looked so good on paper that you could almost vote for him sight unseen. He seemed so all-American, so much like Horatio Alger, that he was able to slip through the cracks of Objective Journalism. You had to get Subjective to see Nixon clearly, and the shock of recognition was often painful. "
The powerful have gotten so good at playing the PR game that you often need to bend the rules in order to evade their skillful obfuscations. Could "real" journalism have given us the images of child labor and blood diamonds that Brugger delivered?
#2 Posted by MikeJake, CJR on Tue 14 Aug 2012 at 12:25 PM
"Could "real" journalism have given us the images of child labor and blood diamonds that Brugger delivered?"
Certainly not. Just like "real" journalism couldn't have taken down ACORN or exposed NPR's leftism....
When you have a bunch of scumbags who are willing to lie, there's nothing like a button cam to set things right.
#3 Posted by padikiller, CJR on Tue 14 Aug 2012 at 07:19 PM