To quote 4thofeleven from above: The reporter here serves no purpose to the story other than to show up, be unlikable, and get in the way... How dare she try and claim the people have 'a right to know' about the Ikaran weapon's attacks? Next she'll be claiming the people have a right to know about who funded the excavation of the weapon, or what happened to it after the episode!
I.e. we have the presentation of the reporter in a bad light when in fact she was doing her job. And that's a pattern on this show. Again, I don't mean an episode like The Illusion of Truth where the media is already under Clark's control, but before, and after.
And unfortunately nobody ever notices that when (if?) it is used to do good.
I'd say Watergate has burned itself into the public consciousness as a prime example of the power of the media used for good in real life. In my own country, Germany, one major incident in the early 60s was when the secretary of state had a reporter and an editor arrested in Spain (where they were vacationing) for a story the magazine Der Spiegel had printed. This, the "Spiegel Affair", ended with the secretary of state dismissed (and the journalist freed, of course), and was celebrated as a victory for the relatively young post WWII democracy.
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Date: 2009-02-17 07:22 pm (UTC)I.e. we have the presentation of the reporter in a bad light when in fact she was doing her job. And that's a pattern on this show. Again, I don't mean an episode like The Illusion of Truth where the media is already under Clark's control, but before, and after.
And unfortunately nobody ever notices that when (if?) it is used to do good.
I'd say Watergate has burned itself into the public consciousness as a prime example of the power of the media used for good in real life. In my own country, Germany, one major incident in the early 60s was when the secretary of state had a reporter and an editor arrested in Spain (where they were vacationing) for a story the magazine Der Spiegel had printed. This, the "Spiegel Affair", ended with the secretary of state dismissed (and the journalist freed, of course), and was celebrated as a victory for the relatively young post WWII democracy.