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Originally Posted by ex34449
Covid turned everyone into overnight virus experts. This poor girls death is turning everyone into homicide detectives.
Sadly what is seen all too often is the media (which combined knows very little but how to spin) has yet to remind anyone that in this country, you are innocent until proven guilty. Reminds me of the towns people in "Frankenstein". Torch anyone?
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And even then they sometimes get it wrong especially when the community seems to have a need for closure and some sad case lets the real killer get away with it. Critical thinking is crucial as it taking things with a grain of salt especially when television ratings are thrown into the mix.
Great movie IMHO about the media gone amok is Kirk Douglas'
Ace in the Hole Ace in the Hole (1951 film - Wikipedia).
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Dave Kehr in the Chicago Reader called it "cold, lurid, and fascinating"[18] and Nathan Lee of The Village Voice wrote, "Here is, half a century out of the past, a movie so acidly au courant it stings."[19]
Time Out London wrote, "As a diatribe against all that is worst in human nature, it has moments dipped in pure vitriol."[20] TV Guide called it "a searing example of writer-director Billy Wilder at his most brilliantly misanthropic" and adds, "An uncompromising portrait of human nature at its worst, the film . . . stands as one of the great American films of the 1950s."[21]
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