Nightcrawler

In today’s society many people only care about fame and money instead of having moral principles. Watching the film Nightcrawler portrays how modern day media is covered because in the film it shows behind the scenes of how producers react when going on live and what is the process behind when purchasing a video from any type of video company. In the film the main point being made is how technology has changed the news industry and how producers only want the views. News stations such as Fox News,CNN, and MSNBC care about the community but mostly about the rankings, and the viewing. Nina Romina the morning news director states, “It’s a carjacking crime wave. That’s the banner. Call the victim’s family, get a quote, mic it. You know what to do.” This clearly indicates that violence is clearly what gets the rankings and the views which is why Nina is connecting the car jackings from another month with a recent one although it might not be true which isn’t illegal , but isn’t morally correct either. Murrow once stated, “ To be persuasive, we must be …show more content…
A video can change the whole story in a quick second because a video actually shows the audience what really happened. A video adds more meaning to a story because in the film Nina wanted videos that were graphic, and videos that would actually enhance people's views and tune it into her news channel rather than other news channels. "Well, graphic, the best and clearest way that I can phrase it to you, Lou, to capture the spirit of what we air is think of our newscast as a screaming woman, running down the street with her throat cut.” When people watch these types of videos not only would they not be able to get the image out of there heads, but they would tune back to the same news where they received the same news, making the argument that a video is more meaningful than a story given by an