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| storyspoiler | Jul 15 2011, 10:44 PM Post #1 |
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So, unless someone has ALL THE OBJECTIONS, I have an idea for two siblings and one newspaper. The newspaper has to be pretty famous--ideally, for my character's why-she-got-in-the-game to work, it is THE Newspaper of the city--so I'm putting it in worldbuilding. The Newspaper--I'll call it the Daily Days, because everything's preliminary right now--is the only honest newspaper in the city. It's full of hard-boiled newspapermen, cynical reporters, people who drink too much coffee and run by the brilliant, pockmarked editor Bernard Strike. The paper's hard-earned success (and ability to stay out of the pockets of corrupt mob bosses and corrupt politicians) is thanks, in large part, to Strike's sister, Virginia Page nee Strike, a wealthy society widow who has bankrolled the paper with much of her late husband's fortune. Would other people be interested in fleshing out the paper more? I see it as the sort of forties-era paper with a lot of yellow copy-paper, yelling, ugly offices, and cigarrette smoke, as well as reporters with cynical integrity and a constantly crabby Editor-In-Chief who screams at people about deadlines and has cavities from eating too much hard candy (I'm planning on making Bernard my NPC, but that could change). Edited by storyspoiler, Jul 15 2011, 10:45 PM.
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| Arscapi | Jul 16 2011, 03:37 PM Post #2 |
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That sounds like fun I'd be happy to help. Maybe I'll make my character a reporter struggling for the big time, but stuck covering flower shows and teas. Newspapers of the 1940's had names like The Times, the Sun, or the Tribune, with an occassional Gazette thrown in. I'm a little confused about the yellow copy paper comment though. Newspapers of the 40's would have had in house printing presses, not copy machines. If you were talking about yellow journalism that was primarily a product of the early 1900's. |
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| storyspoiler | Jul 17 2011, 08:59 AM Post #3 |
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Hm. Maybe "The City Sun" then, because I'm fond of The New York Sun from another canon. Copy, term for body text (or headline text) in a newspaper, generally before it's in the layout. Basically "these people write on yellow(ed) paper". Tell me more about your reporter! |
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