Chapter 506 506 Social Focus
New York, the media capital of the world, has bred countless world-leading media in this land, and almost every media with a name will have branches in New York. On December 6th, it was an ordinary Monday morning. The thin winter morning light penetrated the steel forest constructed by the high-rise buildings. Times Square and Rockefeller Plaza were only one street apart. The dawn of a new week.
Monday morning is synonymous with busyness, and the streets of Manhattan are even more endless. The noisy noise and whistle almost drown the city, and the host's announcement from the radio station in the taxi slowly opened. The prelude to a tense week. In Times Square and Rockefeller Square, there are also two morning news shows, scrambling to give people the latest news for a brand new week.
As two of the top three cable television stations in the United States, NBC TV and ABC TV continue to compete in various fields, and the competition between the two TV stations in the morning news has lasted for nearly two decades. NBC's "Today" has dominated for nearly 40 years. From 1952 to the late 1980s, it was the No. 1 morning viewership in the United States, and it has a clear advantage over its competitors; while ABC In order to fight effectively, the TV station launched "Good. Morning. America" in 1975, but it was suppressed for nearly fifteen years for a long time, and it finally began to gain the upper hand five years ago. In the early 1990s, the title of the American morning news was taken as his own.
It can be said that the news program every morning has become a reserved program for every ordinary American to start a new day, and the competition between "Today" and "Good Morning America" is full of countless topics. Today is no exception.
Bryant. Gumbel and Katie. Couric, the hosts of NBC's "Today", were on fire early in the morning, and they have had a hard time recently, maintaining nearly four The ten-year morning news viewing champion has never returned to NBC since it was snatched away by competitors in 1990. After being suppressed for three years, the host has to do everything possible, and only hope that he Efforts can be rewarded. Today, the opportunity for Bryant and Katie clearly came.
"So, the Nazis are back," Bryant said heavily at the start of the conversation.
Katie had a frightened look on her face. "Oh, God, I hope not. Are you saying that neo-Nazis got into trouble again this past weekend?" There has been a resurgence, including Russia, the United States, Germany and other places, and in order to ensure political freedom and freedom of speech, this group is also allowed to have basic political rights such as procession and demonstration.
"No no no, I mean Spielberg's work, 'Schindler's List,'" Bryant said.
Katie picked up the conversation immediately, "Oh, this thing. Yes, this thing has literally filled Walmart this past weekend, but isn't it all a malicious lie invented by a competitor? Audience. You only need to walk into the movie theater to know the truth. In fact, it was just fabricated by a certain producer out of malicious competition to attack Spielberg, right?"
"Are you talking about another movie that tells the story of World War II?" Bryant immediately hinted at "Farewell to the Lovers", "Wow, I hope not, because our guests today obviously don't want to hear us say it. these nonsense."
"Is it nonsense, I think he will give us an answer." Katie said with a smile, "Let's welcome Mike Nichols."
Mike Nichols, producer of "Farewell to the Lovers". Over the past weekend, Hugo's unintentional remarks caused quite a stir. When people noticed that the statement about "glorifying Nazis" actually came from "Farewell to the Sentient Days" producer Tracy Jacobs, things changed suddenly, and it was easy to think that this was vicious The result of competition and deliberate hype, and insiders knew what Tracy and Hugo had to say, so things took a turn for the worse, although sociologists were still discussing "Schindler's List". "Is there any glorification of the Nazis, but all the spearheads of the remarks in the circle are all aimed at the crew of "Farewell to You Qingtian".
You know, the style of "Farewell to You Qingtian" was originally elegant, restrained, reserved, and literary, but now it has fallen into the trap of conspiracy, and the situation has suddenly become embarrassing, rather like a sanctimonious hypocrite.
That's bad enough, and what's even worse is that, if it's true, the cast of "Farewell to the Lovers" will be dealing with Steven Spielberg's fury, and Jews across America. the contempt of the association. Mike Nichols is also an old fritter in the circle. Naturally, he will not make this kind of mistake, so he must stand up and clarify, even if it is just a polite remark, he must stand up.
"These recent remarks are actually just the personal remarks of some producers, which are absolutely irresponsible and cannot represent any position of our crew." Mike faced the host's interview and stated his position righteously, "and , the crew has never regarded any movie as an imaginary opponent. The most important thing in making a movie is to stick to yourself, not to compare yourself with others. At this point, I admire Spielberg very much. He made a very good movie. 's work, personally, I like his work so much, to be honest, I've been in the cinema to watch it twice."
Mike apparently directly excluded Tracy from the "Farewell to the Sentimental" crew, and he had to make a clarification or things would get worse.
This "Today" used the "Farewell to Love" crew as a gimmick and attracted a lot of attention, which is obviously a very wise move, after all, this has been the most high-profile topic this past weekend; but the "Good Morning America" "But they did not show weakness. Although they were not able to grasp the pulse and make a fuss about the focus of the "Tracy Conspiracy Theory", they found a bigger killer.
Joan. Lunden and Charles. Gibson began partnering in 1987. The duo, also known as the most successful duo in "Good Morning America" history, made the show's biggest success. The ratings have soared, not only regularly defeating "Today", but also officially replacing "Today" in the late 1980s and early 1990s, ranking first in the morning news program in terms of normal ratings.
"So, who's been the most watched this past weekend?" Charles said straight to the start of the show.
Joann smiled sweetly and said, "I hope you don't say Oscar Schindler, so I choose Amon Goss."
"No, I'll give you another name," Charles laughed. "Thomas Keneally!"
"Beautiful counterattack." Joan showed a surprised expression, looking very surprised but very happy.
Thomas Keneally, the author of the original novel "Schindler's List", the Australian author wrote this novel based on the real experience of the original concentration camp survivor Poldek. Pfefferberg of. The original novel is based on historical facts, and then supplemented with modern psychology and style, so as to complete.
In the recent series of turmoil, it is obvious that Thomas is the party with the most right to speak. Therefore, "Good Morning America" invited Thomas to arrive at the program group for an interview. I have to say that "Good Morning America" is indeed a high-level chess move. , when "today" is still looking at the conspiracy of "farewell to the sentient days", they have already put their sights on the root of the whole incident.
"I think Spielberg's film is a true representation of all the details of my novel, and about the psychological transformation of Amon Goss, I had discussions with Podek when I was writing the novel, and it was with Podeck's permission. In the process of adapting the script, Spielberg also communicated with me continuously. You know, he is for this It took Spielberg a lot of hard work to get the script to be so perfect in the end.”
"For the character of Amon Goss, I very much agree with Sigismund Bowman's statement. It is true that Goss is a murderer, but rather than personal character, cruel social factors are the underlying reasons. To be honest , Lancaster's interpretation of Goss made me have to applaud, which is also the reason why I like this movie the most, no one. Because Lancaster treats the whole war background as an ordinary person's The struggles are all shown. In fact, everyone has a dark side inside, and such a dark side will undoubtedly be magnified in the war. From Goss, we can see the cruelty of the war, which is the most profound."
Thomas didn't hesitate to express his support for the "Schindler's List" crew when Charles repeatedly confirmed to him, "So, you like the movie?"
"Yes, I like it." Thomas gave a positive answer. "Podek also likes it, and I believe many Jews will like it. Regarding the recent remarks, I can only say that it is ridiculous."
"Today" and "Good Morning America" were hotly debated on Monday, pushing the social focus to a whole new level this time around, and the ratings competition between the two ended with ABC's victory again. "Today" received 6.2 million viewers. Although this figure has also set a new high in the past three months, it is still not as good as "Good Morning America"'s 6.5 million viewers. Thirty The difference in 10,000 viewers is also the biggest gap between the two programs this year.
At this moment, in the United States, more than 46 TV programs have chosen "Schindler's List" as the topic, and as many as 300 radio programs have chosen this hot spot, not to mention the overwhelming number of them. This time, the topic of "Schindler's List" has become the focus of attention of the entire American society. Even people who are not interested in watching this film have heard of it.
Under such circumstances, after the first demonstration, the extremist Jewish group began to plan a second demonstration, which also pushed the whole event to another climax.