Manny Mendoza e Mark Birnbaum juntaram-se para fazer um documentário sobre a crise no jornalismo norte-americano. “Stop the Presses – the American newspaper in peril” acaba de ser apresentado oficialmente pela primeira vez num festival de cinema.
Sobre o filme, os autores escrevem:
From inside the newsrooms where journalists are fighting for their profession, through interviews with leading lights and media experts, “Stop the Presses” asks, is the “dead tree” model of printed newspapers still relevant? Can and should they survive, or will they be completely replaced by electronically distributed information sources? What, if anything, will be lost as shareholder-driven publishers continue to scale back coverage and eliminate reporters and editors? Are we on the verge of losing merely a tradition of words on newsprint, or journalism itself, the only profession mentioned in the Constitution?
E enquanto esperamos que alguém (RTP, SIC-Notícias…corram, corram…) se lembre de o passar em Portugal vamos fazer como dizia o outro: “letse-luc-at-de-trailâ” 🙂
