Telling the Truth frontline
Henry David Thoreau once said “It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and one to listen. ... Truth could once have been defined as that which has been proven and accepted as correct. However today, a more accurate description of truth would be that which those in power wish us to believe. ... People in positions of power, such as the media, own the truth, and they manipulate it in any way possible to position the public to read events and personalities in certain way. Rob Sitch et al created the mockumentary series Frontline in an attempt to expose the underworkings of the media, and in seeking to answer the question that has plagued the public for decades – “Has the media gone too far?” Rob Sitch et al explore this concept deeply in the Frontline episode entitled ‘The Siege’. This episode shows that journalists will happily manipulate the truth to make their story more enjoyable, as seen when Marty is pictured as ‘Frontline’s on scene reporter. ... ” This ironic statement clearly demonstrates how little ‘Frontline’ cares about the people involved in their stories, and that they are happy to mislead to an innocent member of the public to increase the credibility of their story. ... ‘Frontline’ obviously do not care at all for the welfare of the children in the house, nor for the police negotiators that are trying to reach the gunman. All frontline wants is a story. In this instance, they own the truth of the siege because they have exclusive rights to it, and they are easily able to manipulate it to suit their own slant of the story. A second episode of Frontline, ‘We ain’t got Dames’, demonstrates these same principles. ... For this same purpose, the ‘Frontline’ team decide that Mike needs a new ‘promo’ that presents him as irresistible to women. ... As the viewers of Frontline, we know that Mike is not a romantic man, however he now appears this way to the ‘Frontline’ audience.