r/politics • u/sweatycat New York • 1d ago

California to Negotiate Trade With Other Countries to Bypass Trump Tariffs

https://www.newsweek.com/california-newsom-trade-trump-tariffs-2055414
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u/peanut47 1d ago

its interesting you say its a love story. I think the ending pretty clearly showed war journalism in a bad light

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u/confirmedshill123 1d ago

I'm unsure how you got to that point? Are you misconstruing the younger woman's motivation as a comment on all war journalists? It was quite literally a love story to war journalists, and how even though they are in a warzone they have a job to do.

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u/Im_Chad_AMA 1d ago edited 1d ago

I agree with the comment you replied to. Its been a few months that I watched the movie but there were many instances where it felt like, to the main characters, that "chasing the thrill" was more important than the actual reporting. And it turned the framing of the whole movie from "group of war journalists trying to show the atrocities of war at great personal cost" to "group of adrenaline junkies recklessly endangering themselves and the lives of soldiers around them to snap a few pics". Combined with some other iffyness (like the dude hitting on the new girl who was like, barely legal and clearly vulnerable?) it did not particularly leave me with a great impression of war journalism.

I genuinely thought that that was one of the points the movie was trying to make, but it doesn't seem like this a takeaway that's widely shared

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u/No-Advice-6040 1d ago

Thought it showed war journos as mercenary in their approach. All about the pay off. No opinions, no convictions, a somewhat detached psychopathy about profiting from death.