Danny Boyle's 'Ink' revisits the rise of Rupert Murdoch and the price of tabloid success

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AI GeneratedThis discussion explores the origins of sensationalist journalism and its long-term impact on society. It examines the shift toward \"dangerous\" and \"fun\" news to drive sales, illustrating how the pursuit of the attention economy eventually eroded journalistic standards and contributed to the modern era of misinformation and \"fake news.\"
Any bloke enjoys smoking, drinking, television, mindless, violent.
Let's keep it optimistic.
Do you ever feel like something's gonna happen?
Sex.
Smashing.
Do you ever feel like something's gonna happen?
We want our readers to feel alive
when they reach for their paper in the morning.
Mr. Murdoch, this is not something that has been done before.
Barry, Britain is crying out for something new.
Something dangerous.
Something fun.
imagine we could change the game they're just scared you know
they know what's coming they can feel it
the beginning of the film is very entertaining i hope
and lures people in to feel complicit
in that before it moves into a darkness
because there is a cost to that attention economy which
we're now paying was because we've lost sight
of nobody knows what the truth is anymore what is
what do we rely on the most powerful man
in the world says a fact is fake news and he says a lie
is his truth social you know
so where do you if he's like that what hope have we got you know
it feels like an ignition point really
and um we all have hindsight
um so you know we're we're sort
sort of privileged in that way to understand what might have
been going on then but i think uh while
while these people were just focused solely on on sales
and and selling scandal uh at the cost of
journalistic standards i think something gets lost
in all the melee of it at this point in time
things starting to change
so it was kind of an interesting point really to play somebody who
sort of has the world on his shoulders
and can either go this way or go this way.
So, yeah, it was an interesting period to take on.
