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CaptainCrawdad Since: Aug, 2009

Feb 28th 2020 at 9:55:29 PM •••

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Films — Live-Action

Citizen Kane is one of the earliest criticisms of Old Media in the form that it exists today. Note that Kane himself is a thinly veiled version of William Randolph Hearst — the spiritual godfather of Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch. Keep in mind that Welles did slip in some delicious multi-level irony with the quote, "Don't believe everything you hear on the radio!"
The Ring uses this heavily. An old videotape spreads an unending curse. Bonus points go to the Western Film version, which discuss it.
Richard Morgan: What is it with reporters? You take one person's tragedy and force the world to experience it... spread it like a sickness.
The villain of Tomorrow Never Dies is a poorly disguised version of Robert Maxwell, evident at the end when M says they'll make his death look like he committed suicide on his yacht, which is how Maxwell may have died (he either killed himself or had an accident, but he allegedly- and with some evidence- may have been killed by foreign intelligence agents- Mossad in this case-, just as Carver is killed by James Bond). Carver is worse than any of them, of course, since he brings the world to the brink of war for ratings and has numerous people- including his own wife- tortured and killed, par the course for a Bond villain.
RoboCop, the first movie at least, has several fake advertisements, among them various house hold products and a board game consisting of war up to and including thermonuclear (with realistic special effects build in). The way the advertisements are done border on outright brainwashing.
Meet John Doe has the cynical character that is newspaper owner D.B. Norton, who's only interested in political power. He even turns his newspaper against the man he'd previously supported in the middle of a political rally indicating he'd had plans for if his patsy went off-script.

All of these examples are about media that was current at the time. The trope is about how, in the age of new media, old media is bad.

Phenolatukas Phenolatukas Since: Jul, 2010

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Dec 11th 2011 at 6:54:16 AM •••

Why is this page writen in such a positive light for it's topic, and why are we allowed real life examples on New Media Are Evil and NOT this page? I smell bias editing. Really.

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Andrew Since: Jan, 2001

Dec 12th 2011 at 8:40:36 PM •••

Real Life examples aren't discouraged; if there's an example of someone prominent on the Internet railing about newspapers, by all means, slap it down (while remaining aware of the Rule Of Cautious Editing Judgment). What are discouraged are Truth in Television examples, i.e., those examples where the troper uses the page as an excuse to say something along the lines of, "Old media really are evil. Look at this bad thing over there."

Part of the reason that's discouraged is because we have pages like New Media Are Evil and any of a dozen others where editors can note how poorly major news outlets treat the Internet or other forms of new media. If there's an example of a newspaper pouring scorn on Twitter or videogamers, it goes on one of those pages, not this one.

76.206.17.29 Since: Dec, 1969

Jul 16th 2010 at 12:33:08 PM •••

Why is Scott Kurtz and Newspaper Comics listed? Could someone elaborate?


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