Xi Fei has returned to the palace! In the ninth episode of TVB Taiqing drama "The News Queen", Charmaine Sheh’s female anchor, Wen Hui Xin, finally came to Feng Haichao, which was simply a replica of the classic scene in which the heroine was proud of herself in the palace fighting drama, and seemed to confirm the previous accusation that the core of this modern drama was still playing the main role in the palace fighting. Who knows that at about the same time, the drama of OpenAI, which was raging across the ocean, reversed and reversed, and Sam Altman, who was expelled from the board of directors, actually returned to the company to serve as CEO again. The final season finale of this "American drama" is jaw-dropping. At this time, watching the scene of "The News Queen" will not only make you feel stale, but also have a trance-like pleasure of resonating with the world: it turns out that the world is originally a "grass-roots team", and the game of power, the battle of inheritance, or empresses in the palace are being staged all the time.
The competitive ecology of a TV station in Hong Kong seems to be not much different from that of the Forbidden City: Charmaine Sheh, the empress of Zhenggong, sits in the position of female anchor; The second and third line female anchors who covet the top throne are naturally those concubines and nobles; Mrs. Fang, the boss behind the scenes, is equivalent to the empress dowager; Nuo Nuo’s passive men are not only irresponsible, but also mean. Needless to say, the father-in-law managers are reincarnated. Frankly speaking, "The News Queen" gave people a bad feeling at first. The story didn’t seem to happen in a modern city, but those old things in Xianfeng years, which were painted with a new layer of paint and continued to repeat themselves.
But then, "News Queen" showed the struggle and persistence of media practitioners in this era with an overwhelming news war. In fact, the title of the play has shown that it has two types of genes: the integration of industry drama and Gongdou drama, and the discussion of Gongdou tactics can’t escape those routines. The success or failure of the story lies in whether it accurately describes the current situation and predicament of the news industry. At the beginning of each episode, the drama starts with a famous golden sentence, which is not only an opening statement, but also a kind of courage and self-encouragement. For example, Alain de Botton said that news has no ability to record everything, so it can only focus on a certain place and create a selective "truth". Even this little bit of truth has been exhausted.
Of course, it is also different from the female anchor played by Kim Nam Joo in the Korean drama "Fog". She has to deal with many stages in the workplace, marriage and politics at the same time, and live herself into a gone with the wind. The female anchor played by Charmaine Sheh is devoted to her career and focuses on a major. Some of her opponents say that her professionalism is beyond doubt, and the controversy lies in her unscrupulous means-but it is better than others who have neither. Profession and means are a dispute between Tao and skill, and also a dispute between face and lining. There are too many topics involved in the play, such as whether the current news should be entertained to get praise and forwarding, whether journalists should participate in news events like online celebrity, and whether you are nothing without the media platform. There are even journalists kneeling down to the general manager to show their body curves to show their kindness … All these are fragments and all kinds of local truths. However, it can also piece together a more vivid and diverse living situation of the current media. In addition to milk tea, drone aerial photography and online celebrities, there is also a constant examination and questioning that keeps pace with the times. The answer is not important. What is important is that some people remember to ask questions forever.
The difficulty of female anchors also lies in how to maintain the professional demeanor in front of the anchor desk by one’s own efforts, and compete with many times’ ills such as traffic, vulgarity, immorality, entertainment and big data. Her enemy, of course, is not a competitor next door, and her means may only be unscrupulous, so her ending should also be the ending of a tragic hero, or she may choose to retire to the countryside after the windmill war. The last night of her farewell to the TV station in an episode has already predicted the end of the future.
