Film Shows Dog-Eat-Dog Newsroom


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GAINESVILLE, Fla.-- Speeding fingers churn out stories with lightning speed, phones ring like there's no tomorrow, and editors snarl at reporters the same way rabid dogs do to mail carriers.
This is the real-life atmosphere of a newsroom at a major newspaper as portrayed by "All the President's Men.
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein are lowly reporters at the bottom of the long chain of command in the "Washington Post's" newsroom.
While the two reporters battle with dreaded anonymous sources and the challenge of accuracy, they also have to battle with editors who are itching to bury their story within the depths of the newspaper.
Woodward and Bernstein are forced to make constant trips to interview sources for their story, even as far away as Miami, but even as they travel, they never escape the newsroom.
For a story to have any chance of running, editors must be kept abreast of all information going into the story, the accuracy of all facts and anything else that may be relavent to the story.
The editor also has to be able to take this information and "sell" the story, or show why it is worth publishing, to the rest of the editors at the budget meeting, where the paper is laid out.
At "The Washington Post," Woodward and Bernstein are considered younger, less experienced reporters, and because of this they constantly report to editor Ben Bradlee.
Much of the atmosphere and mise-en-scene in the newsroom is created by the stress caused by Bradlee and the rest of the editors talk of the story not being worth anything.

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