Jay RosenI saw the movie "She Said" in the theatre. An outstanding work. There's a lot of good journalism movies, but in my own rankings this might be the best. What it's best at is showing how the pursuit of a monster story is all-consuming. It invades every portion of your life. 1/
With devastating clarity and in painful detail, "She Said" fixates on the key difference between learning the truth and "having" the story. New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor know that Harvey Weinstein is a monster long before they can meet the bar for publishing that fact. 2/
"She Said" eludes clichés. Crusty old city editor, for one. Newspaper movies (and documentaries) often find irresistible repeated shots of the big printing presses as copies of the paper roll out.
Here that's all gone away. An editor pushes the "publish" button, and the word goes forth about Harvey Weinstein. It is the high point of the film. 3/
Stormcrow@jayrosen_nyu My dad was a machinist for a major newspaper and kept those presses running. He learned programming back in the 80s to help modernize printing and retired before the publish button displaced him.