The Ten Absolute Worst Journalists in the Movies

Long gone are the days when depictions of reporters in movies were reduced to a fedora with a white "Press" card tucked into the bow. We have Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman in All The President's Men and Peter Finch's epic cry of "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!" to validate the vocation as represented on film. But not every journalist on the big screen presents the profession in an admirable light. In Trainwreck, out this Friday, Amy Schumer plays a magazine reporter who ends up wining/dining/sleeping with her profile subject — an indisputable no-no for anyone who has ever seen their name appear as a byline. But Schumer's character isn't alone: Dozens of journalist portrayals in film are hokey, unflattering, or laughably wrong (expense accounts? Ha!). It'd take a far longer, more robust list to document every single example of shabby journalism in the movies, but these ten are the worstDedicated to Tucker Carlson