"Paper" related question

[CapeCodder]

Watching the end of "The Paper" on one of the 18 different HBO's I have, and I started thinking of a logistical question. How many copies of the Sun with "Gotcha" as the main story hit the streets that morning, and how many copies of the Sun went out with "They Didn't Do It"?

Consider these points:

Bernie told Alicia that she worked for the sixth-largest paper in America earlier in the film (which would put the Sun circulation at just under 950,000, according to infoplease.com). Chuck said that roughly 95,000 papers had already hit the streets by the time Alicia got back to the office after leaving the party, roughly 10 p.m. It was roughly an hour until Alicia ordered the replate from her hospital bed (she went to the Bear's Head, and then was shot by Sandusky), which would make it 11 p.m. before the replate was authorized. And Alicia was reading "They Didn't Do It" in her hospital bed after the operation at just before 7 a.m. the following morning. (Henry and Marty are together in the hospital bed listening to 1010 WINS when the clock rolls over to 7 a.m. at the end of the movie)

My guess was just under half the run had "Gotcha," while roughly 55 percent or so had "They Didn't Do It." (FWIW, the font on the back page totally doesn't match the font on the front. And can anyone tell me the sports lede in the Sun that morning?)

And yes, I have no life.

 

[D-Backs Hack]

Don't know, but I hope they used a different **** graphic.

The one they had at the budget meeting looked like a map of Florida.

 

[Chi City 81]

And hopefully they managed to find eight inches for Nazis. Although they had to 86 Bahrain.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

It was nine inches for Nazis, I think. I could be wrong.

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

The easy answer is that it would vary from night to night. If there's a web break or two on the presses, they have to stop to fix it, delaying the run, so replates will make more papers. Or not. If they have press problems, it could also mean that they are so far behind, they ain't stopping for a replate until they absolutely have to (STOP THE PRESSES!)

The Paper's press scenes were actually filmed at Gannett Westchester's plant, the NY Daily News' plant at the time being too decrepit for a film. Westchester had Goss Metroliners, which have a top speed of about 60,000 copies per hour. A major metro would have more than one line of presses, but not all of them would be used on a given night, or for the entire run on any night.

So, in short, it would be hard to say.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

Not to thread...uh...boost, but no way those braless-women-hating Nazis have nine inches

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Do you have another word for timewaster?

 

[93Devil]

Was this the movie that had a huge paper but no photogs? Michael Keaton was in it?

I just remember thinking a paper that size had to send this green photog for the perp walk shot? No other photogs at this paper at all?

All the Presidents Men
The Insider
Absence of Malice

Those are the only three media-ralted movie I can think of that I thought were worth anything.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

Do you have another word for timewaster?

I've got another word for all of them. Now get out the way.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

"Take Hitler and stick him on the funny pages!"

 

[spaceman]

Then keep your **** out of my ashtray.

 

[Armchair_QB]

"I DON'T LIVE IN THE ****ING WORLD. I LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY."

 

[spaceman]

Was this the movie that had a huge paper but no photogs? Michael Keaton was in it?

I just remember thinking a paper that size had to send this green photog for the perp walk shot? No other photogs at this paper at all?

All the Presidents Men
The Insider
Absence of Malice

Those are the only three media-ralted movie I can think of that I thought were worth anything.

dude, that was the idea. They DID have other fotogs, but he sent HER knowing there was a good chance she'd screw it and he'd be able to avoid the "Gotcha" hed

and yes, that kind of stuff went on

and i like to think that it was just one of those ****ty nights in the press room and the Sun caught the bulk of the four-star on a replate plus the final. But that's just me.

 

[zeke12]

Plus, the mother whale in the Ukraine had triplets.

 

[Chi City 81]

She told me she was on the pill.

 

[93Devil]

think analyzining The Insider and how Pacino's character used journalistic ethics and rules to the best of his ability to protect his source was much more interesting.

I mean the movie was a comedy for crying out loud.

 

[CapeCodder]

think analyzining The Insider and how Pacino's character used journalistic ethics and rules to the best of his ability to protect his source was much more interesting.

I mean the movie was a comedy for crying out loud.

Not really a serious discussion--that's why it's posted in the Anything Goes file. (It's sort of like trying to figure out how many home runs Roy Hobbs hit for the Knights...) Anyway, the back page headline was "Jumping For Joy," with a shot of a pinstriped second baseman leaping to cleanly turn a double play. I'm thinking that since the film came out in 1994, maybe it was Pat Kelly? Mike Gallego?

 

[JayFarrar]

I watched it last night on the HBO17 West and Glenn Close's character said to call the trucks back. So no copies of the wrong headline went out, all the copies were right.
I was editor of the college newspaper when The Paper came out and we went as a staff to watch it. Good memories.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Another hour and you'll see your breath.

 

[statrat]

This thread is great. Not only is there a discussion of a fictional logistics situation with no clear answer, but we even had a Mike Gallego reference. Fantastic thread!