Aside: 1940's His Girl Friday is a great madcap comedy about the journalism business. Though I can't find the timestamp, there's a great scene in the first act

Aside: 1940's His Girl Friday is a great madcap comedy about the journalism business. Though I can't find the timestamp, there's a great scene in the first act where the reporters are sitting around their phones playing cards. Our heroine, Hildy (played excellently by Rosalind Russell), comes in and rouses the group with a hot story. The reporters then relay the story back to the newsrooms in increasingly dubious and truth-stretching headlines, all for the evening editions. It's a bit over the top, but the headlines they spout out sound just like Twitter posts and FB memes to my ears. Yellow Journalism has been around in the US for about a century now, so it's not 'news'. To see the path out of where we are now requires that we look back and see how it was done before https://archive.org/details/HisGirlFriday1940_201505 https://archive.org/details/HisGirlFriday1940_201505 Free Here