The Medium is Not Enough TV blog: Microfeed for "Who's your favourite fictional journalist?" http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2007/09/whos_your_favourite_fictional.php Comments for the entry "Who's your favourite fictional journalist?" en-us Movable Type v4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:44:41 +00:00 Comment from Mark H Wilkinson My top five:
  1. Damien Day, GlobeLink News

  2. Kermit the Frog, Sesame Street News

  3. Jack McGee, National Register

  4. Ben Urich, Daily Bugle

  5. Spider Jerusalem, The Word

]]> 3111@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c22067 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:44:41 +00:00 Comment from Toby OB Here's what I posted there:

Well, TV's my forte so I'd go with the following:

Carl Kolchak, 'Kolchak: The Night Stalker'
Oscar Madison, 'The Odd Couple'
Rossi, 'Lou Grant'
Greg Kettle, 'Hot Metal'
and just to prove it's not a boys' club,
PJ Franklin, 'My Boys', my latest fave.

But there's something about a great 1940/50s movie about reporters, - "Deadline USA", "-30-", even Leo McKern in "The Day The Earth Caught Fire" from 1962. The black & white photography, the rumpled suits and fedoras, the rush to deadline, the booze in the bottom drawer. Those types of movies can be as addictive as Westerns. If one's playing on TCM, I'll watch it!

]]> 3111@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c22070 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:42:50 +00:00 Comment from Rob Buckley All good choices (bar PJ Franklin, but you know my feelings on the subject there). I'd also throw Michael Elphick in Harry into the mix, and in my darkly cynical moments, Kirk Douglas in Ace in the Hole.

]]> 3111@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c22071 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:50:31 +00:00 Comment from Linda Hi Rob - thanks for the link and the mention! Your informed choices make me ashamed! Time for someone to pen a series based in a UK newsroom full of intrigue and suspense I reckon!

On another subject, I hope things are going well for you and you are as busy as you want to be!

Cheers

Linda

]]> 3111@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c22073 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:02:30 +00:00 Comment from Marie I went for Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant in 'His Girl Friday'.

]]> 3111@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c22074 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:53:41 +00:00 Comment from Rob Buckley I'm ridiculously, mentally busy! Thanks!

As for that series based in a UK newsroom, if you never saw State of Play, get it, because it's just what you're after (and before the forthcoming Brad Pitt/Ed Norton version comes out). It is, after all, the show that introduced us to the John Simm/Philip Glenister partnership.

]]> 3111@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c22077 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:44:31 +00:00 Comment from Rullsenberg Sorry I ommitted the link on my list to you Rob, it wasnt intentional but rather from rushing to post!

]]> 3111@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c22078 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:03:55 +00:00 Comment from Rob Buckley It happens. You only have to look at my daily news to realise that.

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