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Journalists often abandon their
- love life
- children
- families
- personal hygiene
- correct food
==> in pursuit of the truth

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Most journalism movies were written by journalists
==> more lucrative

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His Girl Friday, 1940
Woman of the Year

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All the President's Men-1976

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They act like that because they need to invest the audience in the role of the journalist for the movie to be a success.

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They are the ones who immediately see if the story is a go

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They are often in charge of reminding the deontology of the job, like double checking the sources.

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In movies they always get furious when they can be the first to get the story

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Their representation hasn't changed since the 1930s

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The war correspondent are always considered as heroes in movies==> risk their lives to bring information back.

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The lines do not always reflect reality.
- the offices are busy, but much less than in movies
- the journalists are always yelling in movies

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- they talk very fast in movies
- they make funny jokes
- they can be principles
- they have their own moral code
-they are perfect characters for movies
- they represent the audience, asking the same questions

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sarcastic: have a point of view that everybody is terrible
would do anything to have a scoop
would fight any obstacle to be the first to publish a story

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curious
passionate
smart
skeptical

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The boring aspect of journalism is harder to dramatize than a mysterious meeting at night in a garage.

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presented as hard-boiled people, but may be scoundrels, but most of the time, the public looks more terrible than the journalist

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- call 30 people to find 1
- spend hours looking for clues in files

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You don't see the real work of the journaist because it is boring

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- The audience loves that they can do what she can't (to cook) but they can't do what she can (being a top journalist)

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the woman needs to be the monster in the movie

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The female journalist in the movie needs to give up on her female self to be a journalist = sexist ?

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Film 1: Network

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Journalists in movies work hard to have their stories published

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Dialogues are fantastic : journalists are funny, clever, witty
=:>  they are wordsmiths
==> converstions are high level

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Editors are presented as rough and craggy.

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Tess (main character) :
- self efficient
- very responsible,
- brilliant,
- she's at the top of the profession

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female reporters are very interesting :
- female reporters = male reporters
- everything a male reporter can do she can do it better

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Film 2: Woman of the Year

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REAL WORK VS FICTION

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FEMALE REPORTERS

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EDITORS

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FILMS AND HEROES

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QUALITIES AND FAULTS

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JOURNALISM IN THE MOVIES