Roaring presses: "power of the press"

Threat/promise of publicity

Romance...w/career tension; office roma.

Off-beat or quirky newsroom "Characters" 
	hypochondriac, misfit, 
	anti-social, poker playing,
	alcoholic, profane, lazy
   (from His Girl Friday to The Paper)	

Newspaper barroom scenes

Truth vs. sensationalism confrontations 
	crusading investigations versus
	scandal stories to sell papers

"Getting the shot" or "getting the quote"

Press-police relationship scenes

Editor-reporter conflict scenes

Getting the job: interviews, hiring

Losing the job: quitting &/or firing

Getting interested in journalism
	in the first place...

Example: Why would the most powerful
	being in the world want
	to be a reporter? 
Ask Clark Kent...
	
On radio, Superman tells "the professor" 
and his son what he wants:
"To know whom to help and when help
is needed..."

The professor says that
"To see men at their highest and 
	lowest..." he should become a 
	reporter for a great metro daily.

(Jimmy adds the observation that a 
reporter should not wear tights and 
a cape.)