Something that stood out to me about Broadcast news is how the love triangle really emphasized different journalistic approaches. Jane was stuck in the middle of two people who approached journalism differently, but were also different people all together. Tom is a handsome, not very intelligent, kind anchorman, while Aaron is a less than average, brilliant, arrogant on site reporter. Jane is stuck in the middle of these two people. She herself is kind, energetic, and intelligent and seeks to provide an honest quality to journalism that doesn't sensationalize the news, but presents it as it is. She's trapped between choosing two men. One (Aaron) fits her journalistic approach and matches her level of intelligence, but he's arrogant about it and drives people away. The other (Tom) is willing to fabricate aspects of a news report and insert himself into the story for a sentimental approach, something Jane has been fighting against. But, Tom is so charming Jane looks past that aspect about him. In the end, she finds that she can't mesh with either of them and ends up being single. For her, she had to have the aspects of being kind, charming, intelligent and journalistically honest. Something Tom and Aaron in part both possessed, but individually did not possess completely.
In this scene below Aaron expresses how he feels about Tom, and Aaron. He nails, in part, what Tom is doing to Jane and how she shouldn't fall in love with a man who doesn't agree with her standards of Journalism, no matter how charming he may be.
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