Jodie Foster Glamorizes NPR's Culture of Violence
From this week's New York Times article concerning the NYC filming of Jodie Foster revenge flick The Brave One, and in particular, the vocational choices of Foster's character, Erica Bain:
In the original script Erica Bain was supposed to be, of all things, a reporter for The New York Times, and Ms. Foster, who confessed to being a "serious N.P.R.-head" — the sort of person who will sit in her garage listening to the car radio until a show is over — changed her to the host of a public radio show.
"Of all things"! Now is it really so hard to believe Jodie Foster as an NYT reporter, in this age of Scarlett Johannson Journalism? Much harder to swallow is an NPR broadcaster who turns to violence, as opposed to turning to, say, flavored teas.
