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How Frontline Represents the Complexity of Telling the Truth
Summary: In the program Frontline Sitch et al cleverly use satire to suggest that the media exaggerates a particular aspect of a story to gratify the viewing audience. This is evident in the episode "Add Sex and Stir" in the shower re-enactment sequence where Sitch convincingly parodies a current affairs convention.
In representing their own constructed version of the truth, Sitch et al cleverly use satire to suggest that the media exaggerates a particular aspect of a story to gratify the viewing audience. Sitch et al interrogates the processes by which the media represents people, events and issues which reveal the constructed nature of these representations and thereby demonstrates that the truth is a commodity tailor-made for the viewing audience to consume.
This is evident in the episode "Add Sex and Stir" in the shower re-enactment sequence where Sitch convincingly parodies a current affairs convention. The sequence depicts a change room where females are getting dressed after training. The extreme close up of the butch coaches eyes scanning the naked bodies of the female players constructs the coach as a sexual predator. The final crossing out of the name Alison on her clipboard implies that the reason she is...
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