Red Box Rental: Nothing But the Truth Director Talks Journalism and Valerie Plame
Santa Fe, I’ve got a homework assignment for you.
Zip down to Smiths or Albertsons, walk right up to the DVD vending machine known as the Red Box, pop in your debit card and spend a $1 on Nothing But the Truth, the straight-to-video journo-drama from director Rod Lurie. Go home, watch it.
I say homework because, for me, the film is an instant Journalism 101 essential. If All the President’s Men is the ultimate argument about why anonymous sources are crucial to reporting, then Nothing But The Truth is the ultimate explanation of why a reporter must protect those sources.
“I want to make it very clear to you rreaders that it’s also a thriller and very entertaining,” director and writer Rod Lurie tells SFR in a phone interview. “I don’t want people to think that it’s broccoli.”
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