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His Girl Friday is a 1940 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell and featuring Ralph Bellamy and Gene Lockhart. It was released by Columbia Pictures. The plot centers on a newspaper editor named Walter Burns who is about to lose his ace reporter and ex-wife, Hildy Johnson, newly engaged to another man. Burns suggests they cover one more story together,…
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Today journalists are hailed as heroes, at least if the mainstream in Western countries is concerned, very much due to their role as keepers of official truths without which Western civilisation is supposed to collapse. In the old days, however, journalism was treated with much less reverence and became the subject of biting satire, just like everything else. One example can be found in *The Front Page*, a popular 1…More
