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The job of the news boys — to sell as many copies as possible — cuts to the heart of this depiction of journalism in the 1930s. It might strike viewers as exaggerated or melodramatic today, but the movie is itself a form of journalism chronicling an earlier era when reporters, editors and publishers saw there jobs very differently than they would today.
In what ways did the movie reflect things we've learned about journalism history so far?
Penny Press?
Yellow Journalism?
Press Barons?
Think about the various characters' behaviors. How did they reflect journalism ethics — or not? What ethical obligations do journalists owe to the people they write about? What ethical obligations do journalists owe to the people who read their work?
Do you think those types of questions were on the minds of the characters in this movie? Any of them? How and in what ways did you observe?
This movie gives us a lot to think and write about!
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