At the beginning of each episode of "News Queen", a famous quote will be quoted to point out the theme of the episode.
At the beginning of the eighteenth episode, the episode quoted a sentence from Ye Yayuan, the first female announcer of Wireless News, which can be regarded as TVB's original intention of news.
It's just that for this fictional SNK TV station, there is not much left of the original intention of the ** people. Catering to the audience and gaining ratings has become the biggest pursuit. So a news workplace drama was interpreted into a palace fighting drama. Gong Dou, this TVB is too good at it, both in and out of the play. There is a particularly strange setting in "News Queen", that is, the anchor station is like the queen's throne, which makes female anchors flock to it, and they do not hesitate to betray, kneel, and seduce ...... for thisDo whatever it takes. Many netizens are puzzled by this, how much money do you give so hard?It's 2023 now, and since you know about it, you can make money standing up. In the first two episodes, Tang Zhiyao, who was squeezed by Liang Jingren to "find a man to marry", later became a prosperous financial figure by herself, and felt that her choice back then was not worth it. 
Think about it, if Sister Man and Zhang Jiayan jump out to be self-a**, they will become millions of V. and then arrange the live broadcast to bring the goods, and earn money while standing. But they would rather roll in the mud than jump out of the sea and the sky. And the network department of the TV station is also depicted as a penal colony with only three or two kittens. Why do you ignore reality like this?Because there is no way, this drama is a palace fighting drama. Gong Dou drama is like raising Gu worms, putting Gu worms in a jar and sealing them, so that the only way for them to survive is to fight each other. Therefore, in order for the palace fighting drama to be established, it is necessary to create a closed environment that cannot be jumped out. 
In order to achieve the effect of palace fighting dramas, the environment of the TV station in "News Queen" must be closed, and the heroines seem to not know that there are options such as job-hopping and self-management, and they are concentrating on intrigue in the TV station. Because once these options are added, the closed environment is opened, what is the fight?This stunned the audience, and the power was not great, and the salary was not high. You're fighting so hard and still don't leave, as for it?
If you want to say that it is the news ideal that retains the anchors, but except for Zhang Jiayan and Liu Yan's master and apprentice in the whole play, there is really no such thing in others. There is no money, and there is no ideal, so the reason for the anchors to stay on the ground can only be the unreliable reason of "letting the demented father see himself on the TV every day". In the end, only Liu Yan, who was fledgling and had not been polluted, made a normal person's choice, got rid of the palace fight, jumped out of the siege, and embraced the Internet that other anchors turned a blind eye to. So in order to create a closed atmosphere of Gong Dou, the choreographers and directors could only give up the sense of reality of the story. However, the distorted palace fighting drama can only make people happy, but it can't really move people. 
And what workplace dramas can really move people is precisely the professionalism and idealism that pervade people in the workplace. In "The News Queen", you can see the shadow of the American drama "Newsroom" everywhere. 
Interestingly, however, "The News Queen" did not copy "The Newsroom", but:The famous scenes in the "Newsroom" have been vulgarized。For example, at the beginning, Wen Huixin, like McAvoy, the anchor of "Newsroom", was interviewed by students at the university. At that time, I thought that Wen Huixin could output a bunch of values like McAvoy. 
But after she emphasized that the news focuses on the truth, she directly taught us a lesson in power schemesHow to use the truth of the news as a bargaining chip to obtain profits。Another example is the scene where Mr. Cheng, the richest man in Hong Kong, died, and "News Queen" copied the famous saying in "Newsroom": Only doctors have the right to announce death. 
However, Wen Huixin decided to take a gamble in order to fight for ratings, and took the lead in announcing Mr. Zheng's death. 
In order to make up for Wen Huixin's character design, Wen Huixin was arranged in the follow-up story to guess that the whistleblower was Mrs. Fang, the chairman of the TV station, so Wen Huixin was not gambling. But why didn't Mrs. Fang say it directly?The show has gone against logic in order to create disputes. It's a chicken thief because it completely disintegrates the most moving part of the newsroom that wants to express the most moving part of the story. Naturally, there was a struggle in "The Newsroom", anchor McAvoy and producer Don did not deal with each other, and Don betrayed him in the first season. So when the shareholders demanded that McAvoy declare the senator's death was denied, they moved Don out to put pressure on McAvoy. It was at this time that Don uttered that famous quote. 
McAvoy raised his arms and shouted: Don, you're a real journalist!
The many contradictions foreshadowed in front of him are to create this moving moment. True journalists share a common journalistic ethic, and no political struggle can override this consensus. In "Newsroom", the show created by the protagonists may be Zhang Jiayan's dream show - return to important issues, reject rumors and invasion of privacy, and break free from the shackles of ratings. But to tell the truth, such a show may only exist in TV dramas. But isn't that why many people watch movies and TV series?I want to see a little bit of the beauty of human nature and find a little confidence in being a human being in this world of flies and dogs. Compared with the outright vulgarization of "The Queen of News", "The Newsroom" is more like an elegy for journalistic idealism.
The protagonists of the play are a group of Don Quixote who charges towards the windmill. Like McAvoy's eulogy to Charlie: "Charlie Skinner is crazy, he identifies with Don Quixote. A demented old man who thinks he can save the world. He acts like a knight and doesn't want the world to be rude. "So what would the real journalism look like?Frankly speaking, I'm afraid it's more like what is shown in "News Queen", and ratings are the eternal goal. Pulitzer, who is now regarded as the grandfather of American journalism, did not hesitate to fabricate a non-existent Spanish war for the sake of newspaper sales. And the reason why screenwriter Alan Sorkin wrote "Newsroom" is precisely because of the corruption and tear in the current American journalism.
Compared with Wen Huixin and them, the anchors of the American news industry are really hand-eyed. Because there is an election campaign in the United States, and highly influential anchors have the ability to sway voters. Influence brings power and wealth to streamers, helping them to become guests of plutocracy and politicians. In order to compete for these, journalistic ideals and ethics will inevitably be distorted and trampled on. For U.S. News**, taking sides is more important than the truth. So they are like Wen Huixin, let the truth serve them and maximize their interests. Comedy star Jimmy Canmore said at a White House dinner for American journalism: "As a journalist, [the United States] no longer regards it as its responsibility to convey information to the American people, but deliberately ** this society in order to make the bosses profitable." "In order to avoid being distorted by biased reporting, many politicians and entrepreneurs choose to circumvent tradition and communicate directly with their constituents and audiences on social media. And so there is Trump's"Twitter governs".
Trump's accusation that the major reports in the United States are fake news and the news that has been bypassed has not even been able to detect the real public opinion. When almost all of them decided that Hillary Clinton would be elected, the "silent majority" in the United States slapped them hard with their votes. This is the motivation for Alan Sorkin to create "The Newsroom", he wants to use his works to find the glory of the news media in the past, to polish the holy grail of journalism constructed by the "New York Times v. Sullivan", "Pentagon leaks" and "Watergate". However, ideals will eventually succumb to reality, and "Newsroom", which is full of elitist preaching, is not liked by the audience, and it ends hastily after only three seasons.
If the birth of "Newsroom" stemmed from Alan Sorkin's dissatisfaction with the current state of American journalism, thenThe birth of "News Queen" stems from TVB's compromise with reality。For TVB, the biggest dilemma is ratings, and as we all know, the panacea to solve the ratings problem is to create cool dramas. But the biggest problem with cool dramas is that all the attention to ideals and care for reality will give way to happiness and hatred, intrigue and intrigue have become the values that have been exported, and watching refreshing has become the biggest demand. As a result, many viewers are waiting for Zhang Jiayan, the only little white flower on TV station, to turn black. The good guy is blackened, this is the standard configuration of palace fighting dramas, and Zhang Jiayan also lived up to expectations and made a 180-degree turn.
In the last two episodes, the director wanted to go back and make up for it and inject a little journalistic idealism into the story. But let me say,Since there have been so many episodes of palace fighting, it is better to be black to the end than to wash it in the end。Then I still respect you for being a man.
Such dramas will only make people miss TVB's former workplace dramas more and more, such as "No. 1 Royal Court", "Wonderful Hands and Benevolence", "Forensic Pioneer" and ......Together, they have built a glorious tradition of workplace dramas that belong to TVB.
Once upon a time, I don't know how many people experienced how cool professionals are, how sassy independent women are, and how hearty justice is in TVB workplace dramas. TVB workplace dramas are many people's enlightenment teachers about professionalism and idealism.
It seems that the current TVB can no longer make such workplace dramas. Even under the sign of "Forensic Pioneer", the follow-up episodes are not as good as a crab.
This may be because the group of writers and directors who once created these classic dramas full of ideals and enthusiasm have left after the failure of TVB's internal "Gong Dou".
And now, the so-called professionalism and independence have become hung in TV dramasThe golden sentences on the protagonist's lips have completely lost the sense of reality that comes from the hearts of the characters. But that kind of realism is the real charm of TVB workplace dramas. I admit that Sister Man has a strong aura, but I still prefer the cold Nie Baoyan. I envy Liang Jingren's long-sleeved dancing skills, but I still prefer the upright Bu Guodong.