https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7003933878689261222#editor/target=post;postID=1909209783324943871 The above quote I used in the title is the mantra of Jake Gyllenhaal's character in the 2014 film Nightcralwer . In the movie, Gyllenhaal plays a man looking to get a start up in the local news business of Los Angeles by filming crimes and car accidents in an effort to shock viewers and thus, increase the popularity of the station he works for. This is not a new idea, by any means. In fact, the portrayal of this idea has only gotten larger. If that sentence seems vague then allow me to clarify: film and television continually push the bounds of what can and cannot be shown to an audience. A horror movie may come out next week that has to do with rape and murder, shown in graphic detail, but a film in the 1930's never would have crossed that line. To go back and look at a shift in the public perception: Vietnam war footage was first broadcast on American televisions i...
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