Evaluate the way the media is depicted in Nightcrawler.

It would be easy to just dismiss the film as a corrosively bitter indictment of television news media, but this is no latter-day Network seeking to make broadly satirical swipes at entire medium. The story is specifically about the creation of a local television newscast; an American institution for more than half a century that is eroding before our very eyes. In order to stay viable the age of internet “news” local television must be honest about their demographics and narrowcast their news to appeal to that segment of society. A segment that is mostly older, white, suburban and terrified of “urban crime” coming to them. And by “urban crime” is meant, of course, criminals who are minorities. When Nina compares her newscast to a woman running down the road with her throat cut what she really means is a white woman running and screaming in terror from the black man or immigrant chasing after her.