This article comes from last week's Sunday edition of the T-U edition.
The article was, I think from the entertainment section. The heading said Journalists are great. but let's get real..
The article was about a new movie release call Zodiac in which Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr.play two journalists bent on cracking the case of the Zodiac a whacked out serial killer. They are dressed in jackets and ties and seem to have a more conformed formal appearance. This is just a movie, they seem like they want to protray jounalists in a conservative way. Is this the idea of how given the way the press and movie people want to protray them and we should except this idea. Since this article was not available for linkage to my blog, let me rewrite it for you.
In the new flick zZodfiac(just released on Friday). mega cuties Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr. play two journalist bent on cracking the case of the Zodiac, a whacked-out serial killer from the 1960's.
While us folks onin the newspaper bix are equally courageous and morally righteous. I'm gonna level with you : Journalists don't look like that. If we did, we'd be America's next top models--or hosts of our own shopping show on VC.
This Hollywood warp isn't journalish-specific, however don't most doctors look more like McCrabby rather that McDreamy?
Nancy Comment: So what do you think a journalist looks like. Is he/she wearing blue jeans and sunglasses. Does his upbringing and neighborhood have influences on his style of writing. Does life's experiences play a part of his writing or his interests. I think journalists write on be half of their background and experiences personal or professional. So how do you imagine the journalist that writes a story or column. Does his story satisfy or interest you, and if it does, you might wonder why. If you had to describe him/her by the column or story you just read, what would they look like and what are their morals. Are they a Harvard graduate or did they graduate FCCJ. Does their background affect their writing. Are they biased in any way? And one last question...Why do the movies portray them as well-dressed, suit and tie people. Is this acceptable, or is this the way we want to see them portrayed. I really want to see some comments on this one....had me baffled.....
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I don't know if anyone's read the book, but there's a picture of what appears to be a homeless man talking to a rioter. The homeless man is captioned as being a reporter...
Personally, I think it's great that journalists are shown cleaner and cheap sunglassed than reality. It makes for a better interview preparation, in which the interviewee thinks that he/she will be most-impressed and honored to make an interview appopiontment.
Then, when the interviewer comes up to them, the interviewee will be blown away and not read from a script they made before the appointment. Then the reporter will get real answers... or juicy slipped bad-mouthing of someone involved in story!
But personally, if I ever became a news reporter on indepednent news projects like Anderson Cooper or Jane Fonda (even though I hate her...), I would like to start out in disguise as a homeless man nd interview the complex lives of the homeless, and live a life as Lynyrd Skynyrd's train-hopping lifestyle.
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