The test of nine for fictions about professionals would be that those of that guild see themselves reflected.
That the lawyers approved
The Good Wife
;
the doctors,
Grey's Anatomy
;
the policemen,
riot
police .
Journalism has inspired countless titles that swing between the romanticism of its public service mission and the acid portrait of media miseries:
Citizen Kane
does not count the same as
Spotlight
.
In the eighties,
Lou Grant
did a lot to awaken vocations.
He focused on the ethical dilemmas that those who make a newspaper face on a daily basis.
They are not few and they make you think.
The Australian series
The Newsreader
, on Filmin and Cosmo, takes us to a television news program in the same 1980s: a star presenter, a young reporter, a cocky veteran, a despotic director... It has the wisdom to spin the plots well in different planes.
In the personal: the vital and schedule disorder, the drawbacks of having an affair with who works next to you, the obligation to put on a good face in moments of emotional downturn.
In the professional: the pressure from the audience, the temptation of sensationalism, the clash of egos.
And the other plane is the news that arrives without warning: the outbreak of AIDS, the explosion of the
Challenger
shuttle , the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
All this in six well-armed chapters, but without boasting.
A journalist recognizes himself there.
Australia is far from us, but this production avoids focusing on issues that are strange to us.
She shines in her role played by Anna Torv, a fragile professional with character, who rises from her ashes as soon as the cameras are turned on, who does not want to be a talking head but to build a truthful story.
The result is not dazzling, but it is honest, sincere, credible.
Leave a grain of truth about this fascinating and demanding job.
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