The subhead of the New York Times review of The Devil Wears Prada 2 reads as follows: “In this sequel, Andy (Anne Hathaway) and Miranda (Meryl Streep) encounter a series of crises that set the stage for a larger existential catastrophe.” Having seen the movie, I’m not sure what the allegedly “existential catastrophe” (the words are those of the review’s author, Manohla Dargis, and not an editor) is meant to be, but I suspect it has to do with what some of us regard as the very non-catastrophic collapse of the business model of the media, which is sometimes called “legacy.”
In other words, what looks like an existential catastrophe to legacy media like the New York Times looks a lot like hope and change (© Barack Obama) to those who look at the world as those media do not. At the beginning of the picture, Miss Hathaway’s heroine, Andy Sachs, wins an award for investigative journalism and loses her job as an investigative journalist at almost the same moment. In fact, she learns her fate at the awards banquet and, in her acceptance speech, opines to thunderous applause that “some things matter more than money. Journalism still f-cking matters!”
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