Thursday, March 7, 2019

TCM March Spotlight: Journalism in the movies

Along with the Star of the Month, another of the returning themes to TCM now that 31 Days of Oscar is over is the monthly spotlight, this time focusing on journalism in the movies. It's a common theme in movies, and a spotlight that I have the distinct feeling TCM has done before, although not necessarily in the era since they put in the Spotlight graphics package and intro.

As the page mentions, Ben Mankiewicz will be hosting along with two guest hosts, Carl Bernstein for the first two Thursdays (because God knows we need to rehash Watergate again) and then Anderson Cooper for the last two Thursdays.

A lot of the movies are familiar, even though they're good ones. The final theme, late on the 28th/early on the 29th, does include the lesser-seen Park Row followed by Jack Webb's -30-, one that I saw TCM run several years ago, but I think that's it.

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