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‘September 5’ Review: Taut, Media-Critical Control-Room Drama Reveals How a Hostage Crisis Forever Changed TV News
Peter Sarsgaard and John Magaro play TV producers covering the 1972 Olympics, when a terrorist attack forces them to make tough calls in the moment.
Details like that raise important ethical questions about the incident that still echo today, as countless crises have since received similarly tricky on-the-fly journalistic judgment-calling — though none has yielded the record 29 Emmys (a mix of sports and news trophies) that ABC collected for its coverage. … Sports is keeping it.” Thirty years later, in his obituary, The New York Times described Arledge as “the most important behind-the-scenes figure in the television coverage of the major events of the last half century, from the Olympics to the boxing matches of Muhammad Ali in the 1960’s to the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979-80.” Moritz and Fehlbaum’s matter-of-fact script lacks the punchy pressure-cooking sparring quality of inside-baseball series such as “The Morning Show” or Aaron Sorkin’s “Sports Night,” which can leave one feeling like the real story is happening elsewhere — and it is, since there’s only so much that news crews can extrapolate from telephoto lenses trained on a faraway balcony.
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