Another great look at how newspapers are depicted in the film world throughout the recent past. This one by The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J. and scribe Stephen Whitty.

His news peg: A film festival of such flicks set for later this week at New York's Film Forum.

He writes:

Of course, “newspaper film” is an elastic term. If you count any movie with a journalist as its hero, then the genres range from romantic comedies (“Woman of the Year”) to horror films (“Dr. X”) to melodramas (“Shock Corridor”).

But the movies were always sharp - and ultimately surprising.

Their editors' grouchiness hid a slightly bruised idealism. Their boozy heroes were rarely as corruptible as they pretended to be. And the stories the films told were often the story of modern journalism itself.

My favorite: The Mean Season - Kurt Russell as a Miami reporter covering a serial killer who gets drawn in when the murderer starts calling him. Great line as the editors and police are talking: “We all have our jobs to do and relationships to keep.” Too true.