What are the best films about newspapers? Here’s a hint–one you will guess easily and the other might take a slight bit of thinking. The Quad City Times staff chose the obvious All the President’s Men, and also the less obvious The Paper. Perhaps they were inspired by the final season of HBO’s The Wire, which is set in a newsroom.
Regardless, more interesting than the two chosen (which most could guess), were the ones called out for being so inaccurate. Chiefly among them? The Drew Barrymore romantic comedy Never Been Kissed. What’s particularly funny are the things they had a problem with, which included a copy editor having their own office. Right, that’s inaccurate, but is that the worst artistic license you can imagine being taken? They go on to complain about the resources it depicts the newspaper having. That should be obvious to most as all we ever hear about is the newspapers starving. No wonder The New York Times slimmed down its page size.
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