Today marks the 50th anniversary of the motion picture that has to be regarded as the quintessential Hollywood release centered on journalism. ---SNIP--- It is a great film to behold, but we cannot regard it as a piece of journalism. With an already corrupted storyline in the book from which it is adapted, the Hollywood treatment could only further fabelize the events. That it went on to engender the next crop of journalists, darting off to J-school with corrupted impressions of the industry, explains so much of what we experience in the press today. Then there is the foundation of...