{"id":734,"date":"2004-04-16T09:46:29","date_gmt":"2004-04-16T09:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=734"},"modified":"2004-04-16T09:46:29","modified_gmt":"2004-04-16T09:46:29","slug":"newsies-in-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/04\/newsies-in-the-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsies in the movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a fun exercise for a Friday: Favorite movie scenes featuring journalists.
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The scene where the reporters all run into phonebooths and knock the phonebooths over has got to be up there (is that from “Airplane” or one of the Naked Gun movies?).
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Just about all of “His Girl Friday” qualifies, but my favorite line has got to be, “Put Hitler on the funny pages!” And the look on Rosalind Russell’s face when she’s phoning in her big scoop about how Earl Williams escaped. “Shot him right in the classified ads.”
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Ever notice that no matter how outrageous the press behaves in the movies, it’s never an exaggeration?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a fun exercise for a Friday: Favorite movie scenes featuring journalists. The scene where the reporters all run into phonebooths and knock the phonebooths over has got to be up there (is that from “Airplane” or one of the…<\/p>\n

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