The Paper, a 1994 movie directed by Ron Howard, is an entertaining film that, in my opinion, most accurately reflects the workings of a real newspaper.
When I watched it, I noticed that almost all incidentals, such as journos struggling for spellings, tricky paragraphs or dealing with readers wanting apologies, is something that you see in papers all over the world.
News writing is universally similar and it was heartening to see that what happens in newsrooms all the way in the US is the same as what we experience in Hong Kong, Singapore or Malaysia.
I show this movie every time I teach Media Writing Skills at UCSI University in Kuala Lumpr so my students can understand the importance of quotes in news articles.
It stars Michael Keaton, Robert Duvall, Marisa Tomei, Glenn Close, Randy Quaid and other fine actors.
I'm still not bored by this movie even though I've seen it more than a dozen time.
By the way, Ron Howard, to me, will always be Richie Cunningham. I'm happy he has become a world-class director.
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