Perhaps no institution has been knocked quite as hard as the Fourth Estate, with a real crisis in trust happening over the past decade of “fake news.” According to Gallup, roughly 7 in 10 Americans trusted the mainstream media in the 1970s, when Spielberg made Close Encounters. By 2025, fewer than 3 in 10 did, a record-low according to the polls. But Spielberg, who also made The Post, a 2017 film positioning journalists as heroes in the Watergate era, still seems to believe in its power. TV producers play an essential role in Disclosure Day, exposing the truth about alien life in the film.
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