Rambo situation (1 Viewer)
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I guess you're talking about "The Siege", an episode of "Frontline", where Mike Moore refers to the hostage situation as a 'rambo situation', falsely imbuing sensationalism and hostility into a situation, in order to gain audience ratings etc etc.m000 said:
Im not 100% sure what Mike is directly referring to but in my opinion it would be the movie Rambo starring Stallone. Mike uses the 'rambo situation' quote to make the news report melodramatic. Like to show that their hard hitting reporter Marty is in this battle field i.e. Marty squatting down in the dark to make it seem more dangerous.m000 said:
If u analyse the context in which he says it is when Marty says, "we beleive he is a war veteran" you are very right to saying that it makes the news more melodramatic but also captures the viewer attention. This leads to the audiences speculating and connecting emotionally to the kids in the siege and therefore uses it to influence higher ratings and more essentially create drama(truth) from an irrelevant fact. e.g. the president is in hospital for a serious heart attack. from reports we have found that his grandfather and father died from a heart attack. probably not the best analogy (implied truth but not actually relvant truth becomes relevant to the audience). And martin di stasio is creating an unreal scene but from a viewers perspective it seems like he is near the scene of the siege. The truth is the victim to the sensationalism of the media[frontline].magik22 said:
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