If TV and movie journalists were real...

I'm talking about sports reporters who were actually shown covering sports or doing interviews.

 

Oscar Madisoy was a god. And Sabrina Lloyd was a goddess

 

Sports Night was an amazing show that should've lasted longer.

 

The movie "The Rookie" showed some of Dallas' heavy hitters in the press box. Then, after the game, it shows the Dallas guys interviewing Jim Morris waiting outside the clubhouse. Can't say for 100% sure, but I'm betting the real event was more like maybe the one or two Tampa/St. Pete beat guys and maybe an AP stringer. I'd guarantee that none of the Rangers beat guys ventured over to the Tampa Bay clubhouse. And since it was September and the Rays at that point of their existence had never played a meaningful September game, I wonder if the papers had already pulled the plug and were having road games done by stringers.

 

This. I binged it on Netflix and loved the show.

 

I can't believe no one has brought up Jane Fonda. From her investigative journalist in "The China Syndrome" and reporting a feature in "The Electric Horseman" to her turn on "The Newsroom", Jane's been working in journalism for many years now.

I sure she is well loved by her co-workers.

 

Wasn't that guy from Texas? If so, I'd bet the local papers had someone over there to do a sidebar on this aging high school coach from in state who improbably made his big league debut against the Rangers. Not the beat guys, certainly, but they usually have (or had back in those days) more than one person at a home game, and a columnist or a sidebar/notes guy probably would have made that trek.

If he wasn't from Texas, never mind.

BTW, as you noted, they used real sportswriters for that scene -- but, as I recall, not the baseball writers. My memory sucks, but I'm pretty sure Charean Williams was one of them, and maybe Ray Buck and Clarence Hill.

Damn it, now I'll have to watch the movie again just to see who's there.

 

Great show...I miss Casey McCall and Dan Rydell

 

That's one thing that really, really annoys the crap out of me. "Blue Chips" was one of the worst examples, but there's a lot of others ("One Fine Day" comes to mind) where reporters "get the big scoop" by confronting the subject during a press conference.
No. Just ... no.
That's a good way to get fired, not make your career. It doesn't help that these same idiots never follow it up by actually writing, editing or reporting their story further. They just ride off into the sunset while their editor screams obscenities and the poor bastard who was halfway out the door to see his wife and kids gets his shift doubled to clean up the mess.

 

Yep. Folks in Hollywood have no idea what the world of journalism is actually like and just want to paint most of us like some type of childish imbeciles with a vendetta. It's loathsome. Don't get me started on the new movie When The Game Stands Tall. It was the thing I hated most about what will soon be a movie forgotten by the masses.

 

David Moore is prominently in one shot.

 

Bang on. Very good point.
Anything that doesn't depict a newsroom's inherent rivalries is not worth the time.