Remember how reporters were portrayed in the movies a generation ago, especially the newspaper guys. Hard-bitten and skeptical, they were ‘reporters’ not ‘journalists’. The former reported the news whereas the latter report their opinion without differentiation from straight news. Sure, every newspaper had their opinion pieces in their editorial section BUT, in reaction to the previous generation’s ‘Yellow Press’ operations, that WW2 and post-war generation made that true effort to segregate opinion and news except on the editorial pages.
Portrayed in Charlie MacArthur’s and Ben Hecht’s fabulous play “The Front Page” which is currently playing on B’way. I hear it is a good production despite being played by a bunch of libs who probably believe the moon landing was faked...
In 1974’s “The Parallax View” the editor doesn’t believe reporters Joseph Fraley’s stories.
A different delivery guy brings him his lunch, later.
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