Good television show about life in the newsroom

Have you even seen the whole movie, or just that scene? Actually, that wouldn't even have mattered. He made light of saying it even as he said it. :

 

Listen Up.

 

Three-oh-nine!

TV shows, not so much, but The Paper is a movie virtually all of us identify with.

 

I thought "The Paper" was pretty realistic.

And I loved "Lou Grant." The owner of my old paper even was a little like Mrs. Pynchon.

 

NewsRadio - Great cast, great show.
Dave's World - I liked it

And in the movie category, Zodiac was pretty damned good. Reminded me of covering a wacked out coaching search.

 

The first 3/4 of The Paper portrayed life in a newsroom pretty well. It got silly toward the end - but that's Hollywood.

I didn't know about Absence of Malice, but now I'll check it out.

Shattered Glass is an interesting choice. I was always curious why they made a movie out of it. I liked it, but I don't see anyone outside of our business liking it.

 

There was a made-for-TV movie in 1980 in which David Janssen, in his last role before he died, played an alcoholic cityside columnist on an L.A. daily that was just bought by a Rupert Murdoch-like owner. A serial killer played by Mickey Rourke terrorizes the city.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0080540/

 

"You have a lot of spunk, Mary."

"Thank you, Mr. Grant!"

"I hate spunk."

Ah, those were the days ...

 

"Lou Grant" is on every Wednesday on the American Life Network, a channel on my digital cable package that shows Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere, L.A. Law, WKRP and the two Newharts..

 

My best friend used to work for a caterer. He was working at a party in Beverly Hills that Ed Asner attended. He approached Asner and said, "I have a friend who is a real newspaperman. Can I get your autograph for him?" Asner said: "If your friend is a real newspaperman, he wouldn't want my autograph."
He was right.
Seriously, it bugs me that movies usually make the media seem like a bunch of idiots. From the guy in Slap Shot -- "I just tried to get the spirit of the thing, Reg" -- to even Harry Potter and Rita Skeeter.
Is "Absence of Malice" the one with Paul Newman and Sally Field? Where Sally Field royally screwed up a story about Newman's family?
The media people in "Bull Durham" were zeros, too. Look at "Mr. 3000." He slept with the ESPN chickie and it was like no big deal.

 

The Mean Season was okay, but I'll watch anything with Kurt Russell. Probably made around the late 80s, but on DVD. Check Netflix.

 

Please to be fucking off now.
My vote goes to the original Kolchak - The Night Stalker.