I was watching batman v superman last night, and the news people were watching in the movie were actual CNN correspondents, like Anderson Cooper, Brooke Baldwin, etc. Does no one else think this blurs the lines between respected truths and entertainment? Should real journalists be playing themselves in a fictional medium?
It doesn't both me. Movies are allowed to reflect the real world.
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I was watching batman v superman last night, and the news people were watching in the movie were actual CNN correspondents, like Anderson Cooper, Brooke Baldwin, etc. Does no one else think this blurs the lines between respected truths and entertainment? Should real journalists be playing themselves in a fictional medium?
It doesn't both me. Movies are allowed to reflect the real world.
of course, but the movie studio would have PAID those journalists, and they would have PAID CNN for the use of their logo. You don't find that a little ethically grey?
"Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk" -EV 8/14/93
I was watching batman v superman last night, and the news people were watching in the movie were actual CNN correspondents, like Anderson Cooper, Brooke Baldwin, etc. Does no one else think this blurs the lines between respected truths and entertainment? Should real journalists be playing themselves in a fictional medium?
It doesn't both me. Movies are allowed to reflect the real world.
of course, but the movie studio would have PAID those journalists, and they would have PAID CNN for the use of their logo. You don't find that a little ethically grey?
I don't. Not if they are appearing in a movie. If they were folding advertising for the movie into the real-life news broadcast it would be different. But appearing in a piece of fiction that doesn't pretend to be anything else doesn't seem ethically grey at all.
I was watching batman v superman last night, and the news people were watching in the movie were actual CNN correspondents, like Anderson Cooper, Brooke Baldwin, etc. Does no one else think this blurs the lines between respected truths and entertainment? Should real journalists be playing themselves in a fictional medium?
It doesn't both me. Movies are allowed to reflect the real world.
of course, but the movie studio would have PAID those journalists, and they would have PAID CNN for the use of their logo. You don't find that a little ethically grey?
Nope. What are you thinking is ethically grey about it? Like, you think the fact they do that would keep CNN from reporting certain things about that studio or something? I seriously doubt that, even in the slim chance that it would even come up. I think what you're saying would apply to politicians, not news anchors or outlets. They're a business, so this seems fine to me personally. Doesn't concern me.
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I kind of like it when real people play cameos in movies where they play themselves like Bruce Willis did in Oceans 13 (or was it 12?). That was funny as hell!
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Sen. Patrick Leahy was in a bunch of Batman movies. Some people are media nuts
I was watching batman v superman last night, and the news people were watching in the movie were actual CNN correspondents, like Anderson Cooper, Brooke Baldwin, etc. Does no one else think this blurs the lines between respected truths and entertainment? Should real journalists be playing themselves in a fictional medium?
It doesn't both me. Movies are allowed to reflect the real world.
of course, but the movie studio would have PAID those journalists, and they would have PAID CNN for the use of their logo. You don't find that a little ethically grey?
Nope. What are you thinking is ethically grey about it? Like, you think the fact they do that would keep CNN from reporting certain things about that studio or something? I seriously doubt that, even in the slim chance that it would even come up. I think what you're saying would apply to politicians, not news anchors or outlets. They're a business, so this seems fine to me personally. Doesn't concern me.
I don't know, to be honest. Just kind of struck me. it's never even been on my radar prior to last night. possibly because that was in pre-"fake news" nonsense era. possibly because most movies use made up news outlet names (or local ones that no one outside of that locality would know).
"Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk" -EV 8/14/93
i heard on the radio that fox spend less than 30 minutes talking about it. most of it was hannity and that dr laura lady bashing the kids as being influenced by moveon.org.
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i heard on the radio that fox spend less than 30 minutes talking about it. most of it was hannity and that dr laura lady bashing the kids as being influenced by moveon.org.
I m Not a Fox News fan at all but 30 minutes on a story seems pretty damn adequate to me.
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Zack Snyder sucks!
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