Scoop! Journalists in Fiction: Who is Doctoring the truth?

The Inky Path

Journalists appear in fiction in many guises and play many roles. Sometimes they provide central characters, often they intrude on the action, their attentions as unwelcome as they often are in real life. Scoop! gathers together these appearances under a variety of themes, some amusing, some trivial, some giving an insight into how the Press works and how it is seen to impact on our society. If you have favourite representations of journalists in European fiction or insights into ways they are portrayed, please email Scoop!

After Fred Cree it is heartwarming to meet Adrian Molecross, 'plumpish and bearded', 'scrupulously neat and clean', 'spotless and tidy', 'a scrupulous researcher'...

After all, he was a journalist, one of the world's highest callings. He pursued truth. Not just transcendent truth, but the ordinary, small earthly sort, too. Such as: what exactly happened last night?

Never fear, Molecross is a resourceful investigator and is particularly committed to uncovering Government cover-ups. As he remarks...

Someone from a marginal publication was more likely to find out about this crop pattern than any mainstream reporter, because mainstream reporters had to have their imaginations surgically removed before they were allowed to apply for their jobs.

As Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart says, Molecross is...

"A journalist. More or less. Writes one of those nonsene web magazines. Complete idiot."

Idiot or not Molecross's Miscellany of the Mysterious and Misunderstood

...had an impressive number of subscribers. This was because he could be counted on to get his details right

Molecross never leapt to conclusions... he stuck strictly to what he had seen and heard. No speculation. Well, except for saying the military were obviously covering something up and you couldn't really classify that as speculation, could you.