The media portrays “hero” as a miracle worker, an angel or a person that can do various things. In the media, journalist, reporters or news anchors will write about a person to make the people either to love that person or to hate them. A “hero” can be anyone that can do good deeds or bad, just as long as those people have a heart. From the movie “hero” it was about a guy name Bernie Laplante and John Bubber, who are both heroes. This movie is a good example of how the media depicts the ideal hero for the viewers to love.
From the movie “hero” Bernie Laplante was characterized by this lonely loser guy, who can’t have a steady job, can’t keep a family, and not a people person. But all of a sudden he saves a ton of people from the plane crash, but didn’t get the credit. Another guy name John Bubber, who was a veteran from the Vietnam War who saved people during that war, was being characterized as a hero because of the lie he informed to the reporters. In this movie, the media and the viewers loved and worshipped John Bubber because of his lying heroic act. But the media loved him because of his past history, and he was the type of person that can be titled as a hero. Even though the reporter knew that he wasn’t the hero, he still stuck to the story and still claimed himself as a hero. The media didn’t depict Bernie Laplante as a hero because of his image and his criminal records. After his heroic act, he disappeared from the scene but confessed to the wrong people and reported to the reporters too late. But at the end, when Laplante hinted the reporter that he was the hero that saved the people from the plane crash, he wasn’t shown in the media that he was the hero. Laplante didn’t like the fortune and the fame in the media, so he decided to stay off the media. Anybody can be a hero but I guess it’s the media who picks the ideal person for the viewers. For example, a New York City guy name Wesley Autrey and Chad Lindsey is being labeled as a hero, for saving a person from the train tracks but one of them was rewarded.
From the New York Times, a journalist name Ray Rivera and Karen Zraick labeled Wesley Autrey and Chad Lindsey as a hero because of their heroic act. Autrey is being labeled as a hero because he saved a person from a seizure attack that fell onto the tracks, right before the number one train came. Autrey is a fifty year old guy, who is married and has two kids and works as a construction guy. Autrey was awarded with a visit to the white house and the people in the city saluted him for his heroic act. Lindsey saved a person who fell on the tracks right before the train came. But Lindsey was going to become an anonymous hero until his friends told about Lindsey. From my viewpoint, I feel that the journalist gave an innocent man Autrey more credit of his act because he is a family man which viewers like to see, because he is like our everyday people. I guess these news reporters or journalist knows what type of people would stand out and can be classified as a hero. Just like in the movie, Gale Gayley the reporter gave more credit and fame to Bubber because he was this homeless guy that had nothing.
A hero in the media is someone who fits in with the story and the type of people viewers would like. The media from the movie “hero” illustrated Bubber as a hero because of his image; the media weren’t satisfied with the real hero Laplante because of his records and his characteristics. Just like what Bubber said “everyone is a hero”, so personally, the media shouldn’t choose which person should be the hero that best suit the media, it should be whoever did their duty.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/a-subway-hero-descends-then-vanishes/
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