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* The film noir ''Scandal Sheet'' has an editor taking over a New York paper that may have been too "non-sensational" for its own good. Their take on the 1948 Presidential election was a small bold type "Mr. Dewey defeated" headline. The new editor quickly turns it into a sensationalist rag that pushes small murders into huge deals among other wild stories to boost readership. In a dark irony, when he kills his ex-wife, his own star reporter decides to turn it into a major story and the paper's circulation soars thanks to a story the editor would prefer buried.
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Examples of the WorstNewsJudgmentEver in LiveActionFilms.
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* The theft of fifteen puppies in ''Film/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1996'' somehow makes the front page of a ''national'' newspaper, while the wedding of two nobodies is covered by ''The Independent''. Of course this is Disney England, where the puppy crisis warrants a dozen or so squad cars to comb the Home Counties for these missing dogs. Never mind that there could be murderers to catch. Admittedly they're also on the trail of a woman who's already had a rare and protected tiger illegally slaughtered ''inside London Zoo'' so she could have the pelt, and if one treats the puppies as human children, then the theft of that many puppies would be equivalent to a massive kidnapping worthy of the attention of the nation's law enforcement officials.
* Averted in ''Film/AbsoluteBeginners'' - the riots that make up the climax of the film rightly get the front page of the tabloid we see promoter Harry Charms holding near the end; it's just a different story that's making him sob (Baby Boom, his latest discovery, has gotten married, and that story's on the back page).
* A continuing theme in ''Film/AllThePresidentsMen'', is how headlines for Watergate started small and grew larger. There are several scenes where Watergate headlines are overshadowed by stories that, in hindsight, were much smaller.
** An early scene has Ben Bradlee crossing out large portions of the article and saying "Stick it inside someplace."
** At another point, we see a newspaper with a headline about Eagleton dropping out. When the paper is turned over, we see that the Watergate story is below the fold.
** The one time Woodward and Bernstein get the top headline, it turns out to be flawed, showing that Ben Bradlee [[ProperlyParanoid has reasons to be pushing back]].
* ''Film/Anchorman2TheLegendContinues'', which is set in 1980, sends this up by having Ron Burgundy and his crew [[https://youtu.be/3xvRtZZhURg effectively inventing the trope]] -- at least as far as its use by TwentyFourHourNewsNetworks is concerned. Stuck in a 2 AM timeslot and having made a bet with the prime time anchor that they could get higher ratings, they decide to give people what they want to see, so rather than actual news they present cute animal stories, tributes to American patriotism, gimmicky sports highlights, and celebrity fluff. This works spectacularly.
* ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'':
** In the alternate future (courtesy of Biff), Doc holds up a newspaper where the front page story is about how he was proclaimed insane and committed. While he is a strange, prominent figure in the town, it doesn't really merit the front page.
** Jonathan Chait has [[http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/01/back-to-the-futures-terrible-newspaper.html harsh words]] regarding the editorial priorities of the ''Hill Valley Telegraph''.
* In ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', news of Bruce Wayne attending the opening of an observatory is the big front-page headline. Bemoaned by the [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Batman___Robin_1997.aspx?Page=5 Agony Booth here]]. "It must have been a slow news day". This example is particularly silly, given that Batman and Robin ''just'' fought Mr. Freeze in a very public battle with a whole lot of collateral damage.
* ''Film/TheBeatniks''. Mooney thinks he'll become famous because '''"I SHOT THAT FAT BARKEEP!"'''
* ''Film/ChristmasWithTheKranks'': The family's decision to not celebrate Christmas that year ended up being such SeriousBusiness for the townsfolk that it became front-page news.
* ''Film/DamienOmenII''. Death in freak elevator "accident" does not warrant a front page.
* The inverted version is shown in ''Film/DogSoldiers'': The screen shows an article depicting the events of the film, only to quickly pan out, revealing it as a secondary story to the main headline (the result of an International Football match). The secondary story is about the only survivor of a British soldier unit who were attacked by werewolves.
* ''Film/GirlInGoldBoots'':
-->'''Buz:''' Aha, front page!\\
'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mike]]:''' Yeah, front page of the ''LA Times'': '$40 Robbery, No One Hurt.'
* ''Film/GiveMyRegardsToBroadStreet'' [[spoiler: '''MUSIC EMPIRE COLLAPSES!''']] as sole story on top of the fold of a paper.
* Lampshaded in ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper''. Kermit and Fozzie, playing reporters, spend the opening number surrounded by a balloon crash, a jailbreak, and general mayhem culminating in a daring daylight jewel robbery. This last, which sets off the plot of the movie, is the cover story in every major paper -- except Kermit and Fozzie's, which runs the headline "Identical Twins Join Chronicle Staff". Their editor is furious not only because of the huge missed story, but because Kermit and Fozzie don't even look alike. That's because Fozzie had his hat off.
* ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'' not only averts this--a lot of the stuff would be important normally, but is often buried because of pressure from the Ministry of Magic--but makes the SpinningPaper trope ''work''.
** Invoked in ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'', but the MACUSA covers up the existence of magic by replacing a story about a magical creature wreaking havoc with one about out-of-season rainy weather.
* Happens quite a bit in ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight'', where Ellie Andrews' love life makes not only the front page of all the major New York papers, but is the ''top headline for every single one of them''.
* A deleted scene from ''Film/HudsonHawk'' has Hudson learning his beloved pet monkey was killed in a shooting...as it's on the ''front page'' of the newspaper under "MONKEY SLAIN IN GANGLAND HIT".
* In ''Film/TheItalian'', it's a huge headline and a big story in the newspaper when Corrigan the political boss's daughter gets sick. This is necessary to the plot so Beppo the protagonist can find out about Corrigna's daughter and take his revenge.
* ''Film/JesusChristVampireHunter'' and "CRITICAL LESBIAN SHORTAGE".
* Played with in ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService''. Galahad collects the front pages of newspapers from the days when he completed a mission. Between the secrecy of his work and the shallowness of the Sun's editors, most of the articles are about sporting events or celebrity fluff rather than whatever crisis he resolved.
* ''Film/LadyInCement'': A local TV station would never break into the broadcast of a national program (especially one like ''Series/DanielBoone'', aimed at children and families) to announce the murder of the owner of a go-go club, as shown in the film.
* ''Film/LibeledLady'', in which "PEER'S WIFE ROUTS RICH PLAYGIRL" is the front-page headline. It's even worse news judgment, because it isn't true, and the playgirl accused of trying to break up a peer's marriage sues for libel.
* The travel plans and marriage plans of French playboy Michel Marnet in ''Film/LoveAffair'' are fodder for radio commentators and front-page newspaper headlines.
* Low-budget D-movie ''Film/{{Maneater}}'' is downright hilarious with this. At one point, it's revealed that ''USA Today'' and ''Entertainment Weekly'' are interested in a tiger killing some people in the Appalachian Mountains. The sense that doesn't make is extraordinary.
* A plot point in ''Film/MenInBlack''; the stories about aliens you see in the tabloid newspapers are ''real'', it's just that no one believes them.
-->'''Agent J''': These are the hot sheets?\\
'''Agent K''': Best investigative reporting on the planet. But go ahead, read ''The New York Times'' if you want. They get lucky sometimes.
* In ''Film/TheMightyDucks'' series, Pee-Wee hockey results making front-page news seems a little ridiculous even by hockey-loving Minnesota standards. It goes even more overboard in the sequel, where the hockey finals of Junior Goodwill Games not only get huge newspaper coverage, but the finals preview includes a giant FloatingHeadSyndrome image hyping Coach Bombay vs. Wolf Stansson.
* In ''Film/MyNameIsBruce'', an old newspaper has the headline claiming the birth of a two-headed horse. A smaller article announces a local spelling bee. ''An even smaller article'' mentions how one hundred Chinese immigrants were killed when a local mine collapsed.
* Apparently, in the world of ''Film/MyPetMonster'', a dog being the favorite to win a dog show is worthy of the front page.
* Spoofed in ''Film/NationalLampoonsVacation'' where Chevy Chase is reading a newspaper with the headline: AMERICAN COUPLE MISSING AS JAPAN SLIDES INTO THE SEA.
* In ''Series/OddSquad: TheMovie'', the sportscaster blows off his duties in favor of covering the hyper-awesome Weird Team's exploits.
* Played with in the direct-to-video ''Film/TheOnionMovie''. A woman witnesses a house explode on the other side of the street and calls the Onion News hotline. The following scene shows an Onion van arriving on the spot to report on her husband's missing socks, which makes the front page. The people in the neighborhood exhibit similar behavior, being far more interested in the presence of the Onion news team than the catastrophe that had just taken place.
* In ''Film/OsmosisJones'', there are two instances. Frank vomiting on Shane's teacher manages to make the front page in major newspapers across the country. This starts to be RefugeInAudacity later, though:
-->'''Frank:''' I know your daughter, Hurley, had to transfer schools...\\
'''Mrs. Boyd:''' Shirley. My daughter's name is Shirley.\\
'''Frank:''' Oh, that is much prettier. Tom Brokaw called her Hurley.
** Later the newscasters for NNN are giving a desperate last broadcast after Thrax takes the DNA bead, saying they have "lost contact with the lower extremities", the screen flickering and sound full of static, when one starts to introduce a segment about "household appliances that can improve your golf swing!" This is lampshaded: the other screams at her for being a moron.
* This is a key plot point in ''Film/ThePaper'': on the day when every other news outlet in the New York area leads with the story of the apparently racially-motivated murder of two white financiers, the eponymous newspaper, the ''New York Sun'' (which was actually an {{Expy}} of the ''New York Post'', and not the RealLife ''New York Sun''), led with a story about one of their columnist's cars being towed.
* In ''Film/{{Patton}}'', Patton makes a speech to a crowd of British women about how the Americans and British will rule the world, neglecting to mentions the Russians. Cut to newsreel proclaiming "Patton insults Russian allies". The TruthInTelevision version would've been even worse. Apparently, Patton ''did'' mention the Russians, but news reports didn't mention that. However, (in the film version) this would have to be seen in historical context -- even the slightest hint of a rift between Russia and the West would have had incredibly far-reaching and potentially catastrophic results during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, and that conflict ''did'' have a decisive impact on history for the next 50 years, so it makes sense that that part of Patton's speech would receive dramatically more attention than anything else he said (which was otherwise just what people expected from such a speech anyway.)
* The film noir ''Scandal Sheet'' has an editor taking over a New York paper that may have been too "non-sensational" for its own good. Their take on the 1948 Presidential election was a small bold type "Mr. Dewey defeated" headline. The new editor quickly turns it into a sensationalist rag that pushes small murders into huge deals among other wild stories to boost readership. In a dark irony, when he kills his ex-wife, his own star reporter decides to turn it into a major story and the paper's circulation soars thanks to a story the editor would prefer buried.
* In ''Film/ScaryMovie 3'', the news station that Cindy Campbell works for refuses to air her story about a [[Literature/TheRing killer videotape]] which anyone that watches it dies seven days later. This, however, doesn't necessarily make it this trope, as her story does seem rather out there. What ''does'' make it this trope is that they're instead more concerned with airing fluff news stories and stories about things like breast implants. Then, when they finally do become convinced that the tape exists, they get a copy of it and ''play'' it.
-->'''Ross Giggins''': We're the only station that has it and we are showing it all night. (''videotape begins playing'')
* ''Film/{{Sextette}}''. Apparently, the sex life and consummation of an 85-year-old woman with a 32-year-old Brit is ''front page news across the world'', instead of on ''Franchise/RipleysBelieveItOrNot'' or maybe ''Film/FacesOfDeath''.
* Throughout ''Film/SilentMovie'', the headlines of the paper being shown all center around Mel Funn's silent movie project and his progress in recruiting first-rate talent for the picture. The second most important article on the front page tends to be about the newspaper salesman being repeatedly injured because the deliverymen keep throwing a large bundle of papers at him instead of leaving it on the curb.
* ''Film/{{S1m0ne}}'' had a radio broadcast version when the reporter said that things like the threat of nuclear destruction have all been overshadowed by the preparations for the Academy awards.
* ''Film/SpiderMan2'': "SPIDER-MAN NO MORE" gets a front page picture in the ''Bugle'', while a story about Doc Ock gets pushed to the back pages. Justified in that the [[DaEditor editor of the Bugle]] is [[Franchise/SpiderMan J. Jonah Jameson]], whose fixation on Spider-Man is legendary.
* In ''Film/TestPilot'', apparently every time Jim goes up to test a plane it is front-page, above-the-fold newspaper material.
* At the end of ''Film/VanWilder'', the main character's love interest gets a story published on the front page of the school paper chronicling Van's expulsion hearing. That's not the poor news judgment. That comes into play when you consider that the "story" is more of a trashy gossip column, filled with embarrassing sexual details about the writer's ex-boyfriend. Those sort of pieces do get published, but even a student paper isn't going to stick that on the front page of the graduation edition. Or any other edition, really. Then there's the framed front-page story about the difference between light and dark beer... by a journalist who goes on to win a Pulitzer.
* In ''Film/WillSuccessSpoilRockHunter'', a kiss between Rita Marlowe (who ''is'' a Hollywood celebrity) and Rock "Lover Doll" Hunter (still not used to the fame he caught from Miss Marlowe) makes headlines around the world in a montage. LampshadeHanging occurs with the headlines from foreign newspapers dissolving to "RUSSIA INVENTED LOVER DOLL" and "LOVER DOLL MUST BE FRENCH!"
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Examples of the WorstNewsJudgmentEver in LiveActionFilms.
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* The theft of fifteen puppies in ''Film/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1996'' somehow makes the front page of a ''national'' newspaper, while the wedding of two nobodies is covered by ''The Independent''. Of course this is Disney England, where the puppy crisis warrants a dozen or so squad cars to comb the Home Counties for these missing dogs. Never mind that there could be murderers to catch. Admittedly they're also on the trail of a woman who's already had a rare and protected tiger illegally slaughtered ''inside London Zoo'' so she could have the pelt, and if one treats the puppies as human children, then the theft of that many puppies would be equivalent to a massive kidnapping worthy of the attention of the nation's law enforcement officials.
* Averted in ''Film/AbsoluteBeginners'' - the riots that make up the climax of the film rightly get the front page of the tabloid we see promoter Harry Charms holding near the end; it's just a different story that's making him sob (Baby Boom, his latest discovery, has gotten married, and that story's on the back page).
* A continuing theme in ''Film/AllThePresidentsMen'', is how headlines for Watergate started small and grew larger. There are several scenes where Watergate headlines are overshadowed by stories that, in hindsight, were much smaller.
** An early scene has Ben Bradlee crossing out large portions of the article and saying "Stick it inside someplace."
** At another point, we see a newspaper with a headline about Eagleton dropping out. When the paper is turned over, we see that the Watergate story is below the fold.
** The one time Woodward and Bernstein get the top headline, it turns out to be flawed, showing that Ben Bradlee [[ProperlyParanoid has reasons to be pushing back]].
* ''Film/Anchorman2TheLegendContinues'', which is set in 1980, sends this up by having Ron Burgundy and his crew [[https://youtu.be/3xvRtZZhURg effectively inventing the trope]] -- at least as far as its use by TwentyFourHourNewsNetworks is concerned. Stuck in a 2 AM timeslot and having made a bet with the prime time anchor that they could get higher ratings, they decide to give people what they want to see, so rather than actual news they present cute animal stories, tributes to American patriotism, gimmicky sports highlights, and celebrity fluff. This works spectacularly.
* ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'':
** In the alternate future (courtesy of Biff), Doc holds up a newspaper where the front page story is about how he was proclaimed insane and committed. While he is a strange, prominent figure in the town, it doesn't really merit the front page.
** Jonathan Chait has [[http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/01/back-to-the-futures-terrible-newspaper.html harsh words]] regarding the editorial priorities of the ''Hill Valley Telegraph''.
* In ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', news of Bruce Wayne attending the opening of an observatory is the big front-page headline. Bemoaned by the [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Batman___Robin_1997.aspx?Page=5 Agony Booth here]]. "It must have been a slow news day". This example is particularly silly, given that Batman and Robin ''just'' fought Mr. Freeze in a very public battle with a whole lot of collateral damage.
* ''Film/TheBeatniks''. Mooney thinks he'll become famous because '''"I SHOT THAT FAT BARKEEP!"'''
* ''Film/ChristmasWithTheKranks'': The family's decision to not celebrate Christmas that year ended up being such SeriousBusiness for the townsfolk that it became front-page news.
* ''Film/DamienOmenII''. Death in freak elevator "accident" does not warrant a front page.
* The inverted version is shown in ''Film/DogSoldiers'': The screen shows an article depicting the events of the film, only to quickly pan out, revealing it as a secondary story to the main headline (the result of an International Football match). The secondary story is about the only survivor of a British soldier unit who were attacked by werewolves.
* ''Film/GirlInGoldBoots'':
-->'''Buz:''' Aha, front page!\\
'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mike]]:''' Yeah, front page of the ''LA Times'': '$40 Robbery, No One Hurt.'
* ''Film/GiveMyRegardsToBroadStreet'' [[spoiler: '''MUSIC EMPIRE COLLAPSES!''']] as sole story on top of the fold of a paper.
* Lampshaded in ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper''. Kermit and Fozzie, playing reporters, spend the opening number surrounded by a balloon crash, a jailbreak, and general mayhem culminating in a daring daylight jewel robbery. This last, which sets off the plot of the movie, is the cover story in every major paper -- except Kermit and Fozzie's, which runs the headline "Identical Twins Join Chronicle Staff". Their editor is furious not only because of the huge missed story, but because Kermit and Fozzie don't even look alike. That's because Fozzie had his hat off.
* ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'' not only averts this--a lot of the stuff would be important normally, but is often buried because of pressure from the Ministry of Magic--but makes the SpinningPaper trope ''work''.
** Invoked in ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'', but the MACUSA covers up the existence of magic by replacing a story about a magical creature wreaking havoc with one about out-of-season rainy weather.
* Happens quite a bit in ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight'', where Ellie Andrews' love life makes not only the front page of all the major New York papers, but is the ''top headline for every single one of them''.
* A deleted scene from ''Film/HudsonHawk'' has Hudson learning his beloved pet monkey was killed in a shooting...as it's on the ''front page'' of the newspaper under "MONKEY SLAIN IN GANGLAND HIT".
* In ''Film/TheItalian'', it's a huge headline and a big story in the newspaper when Corrigan the political boss's daughter gets sick. This is necessary to the plot so Beppo the protagonist can find out about Corrigna's daughter and take his revenge.
* ''Film/JesusChristVampireHunter'' and "CRITICAL LESBIAN SHORTAGE".
* Played with in ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService''. Galahad collects the front pages of newspapers from the days when he completed a mission. Between the secrecy of his work and the shallowness of the Sun's editors, most of the articles are about sporting events or celebrity fluff rather than whatever crisis he resolved.
* ''Film/LadyInCement'': A local TV station would never break into the broadcast of a national program (especially one like ''Series/DanielBoone'', aimed at children and families) to announce the murder of the owner of a go-go club, as shown in the film.
* ''Film/LibeledLady'', in which "PEER'S WIFE ROUTS RICH PLAYGIRL" is the front-page headline. It's even worse news judgment, because it isn't true, and the playgirl accused of trying to break up a peer's marriage sues for libel.
* The travel plans and marriage plans of French playboy Michel Marnet in ''Film/LoveAffair'' are fodder for radio commentators and front-page newspaper headlines.
* Low-budget D-movie ''Film/{{Maneater}}'' is downright hilarious with this. At one point, it's revealed that ''USA Today'' and ''Entertainment Weekly'' are interested in a tiger killing some people in the Appalachian Mountains. The sense that doesn't make is extraordinary.
* A plot point in ''Film/MenInBlack''; the stories about aliens you see in the tabloid newspapers are ''real'', it's just that no one believes them.
-->'''Agent J''': These are the hot sheets?\\
'''Agent K''': Best investigative reporting on the planet. But go ahead, read ''The New York Times'' if you want. They get lucky sometimes.
* In ''Film/TheMightyDucks'' series, Pee-Wee hockey results making front-page news seems a little ridiculous even by hockey-loving Minnesota standards. It goes even more overboard in the sequel, where the hockey finals of Junior Goodwill Games not only get huge newspaper coverage, but the finals preview includes a giant FloatingHeadSyndrome image hyping Coach Bombay vs. Wolf Stansson.
* In ''Film/MyNameIsBruce'', an old newspaper has the headline claiming the birth of a two-headed horse. A smaller article announces a local spelling bee. ''An even smaller article'' mentions how one hundred Chinese immigrants were killed when a local mine collapsed.
* Apparently, in the world of ''Film/MyPetMonster'', a dog being the favorite to win a dog show is worthy of the front page.
* Spoofed in ''Film/NationalLampoonsVacation'' where Chevy Chase is reading a newspaper with the headline: AMERICAN COUPLE MISSING AS JAPAN SLIDES INTO THE SEA.
* In ''Series/OddSquad: TheMovie'', the sportscaster blows off his duties in favor of covering the hyper-awesome Weird Team's exploits.
* Played with in the direct-to-video ''Film/TheOnionMovie''. A woman witnesses a house explode on the other side of the street and calls the Onion News hotline. The following scene shows an Onion van arriving on the spot to report on her husband's missing socks, which makes the front page. The people in the neighborhood exhibit similar behavior, being far more interested in the presence of the Onion news team than the catastrophe that had just taken place.
* In ''Film/OsmosisJones'', there are two instances. Frank vomiting on Shane's teacher manages to make the front page in major newspapers across the country. This starts to be RefugeInAudacity later, though:
-->'''Frank:''' I know your daughter, Hurley, had to transfer schools...\\
'''Mrs. Boyd:''' Shirley. My daughter's name is Shirley.\\
'''Frank:''' Oh, that is much prettier. Tom Brokaw called her Hurley.
** Later the newscasters for NNN are giving a desperate last broadcast after Thrax takes the DNA bead, saying they have "lost contact with the lower extremities", the screen flickering and sound full of static, when one starts to introduce a segment about "household appliances that can improve your golf swing!" This is lampshaded: the other screams at her for being a moron.
* This is a key plot point in ''Film/ThePaper'': on the day when every other news outlet in the New York area leads with the story of the apparently racially-motivated murder of two white financiers, the eponymous newspaper, the ''New York Sun'' (which was actually an {{Expy}} of the ''New York Post'', and not the RealLife ''New York Sun''), led with a story about one of their columnist's cars being towed.
* In ''Film/{{Patton}}'', Patton makes a speech to a crowd of British women about how the Americans and British will rule the world, neglecting to mentions the Russians. Cut to newsreel proclaiming "Patton insults Russian allies". The TruthInTelevision version would've been even worse. Apparently, Patton ''did'' mention the Russians, but news reports didn't mention that. However, (in the film version) this would have to be seen in historical context -- even the slightest hint of a rift between Russia and the West would have had incredibly far-reaching and potentially catastrophic results during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, and that conflict ''did'' have a decisive impact on history for the next 50 years, so it makes sense that that part of Patton's speech would receive dramatically more attention than anything else he said (which was otherwise just what people expected from such a speech anyway.)
* The film noir ''Scandal Sheet'' has an editor taking over a New York paper that may have been too "non-sensational" for its own good. Their take on the 1948 Presidential election was a small bold type "Mr. Dewey defeated" headline. The new editor quickly turns it into a sensationalist rag that pushes small murders into huge deals among other wild stories to boost readership. In a dark irony, when he kills his ex-wife, his own star reporter decides to turn it into a major story and the paper's circulation soars thanks to a story the editor would prefer buried.
* In ''Film/ScaryMovie 3'', the news station that Cindy Campbell works for refuses to air her story about a [[Literature/TheRing killer videotape]] which anyone that watches it dies seven days later. This, however, doesn't necessarily make it this trope, as her story does seem rather out there. What ''does'' make it this trope is that they're instead more concerned with airing fluff news stories and stories about things like breast implants. Then, when they finally do become convinced that the tape exists, they get a copy of it and ''play'' it.
-->'''Ross Giggins''': We're the only station that has it and we are showing it all night. (''videotape begins playing'')
* ''Film/{{Sextette}}''. Apparently, the sex life and consummation of an 85-year-old woman with a 32-year-old Brit is ''front page news across the world'', instead of on ''Franchise/RipleysBelieveItOrNot'' or maybe ''Film/FacesOfDeath''.
* Throughout ''Film/SilentMovie'', the headlines of the paper being shown all center around Mel Funn's silent movie project and his progress in recruiting first-rate talent for the picture. The second most important article on the front page tends to be about the newspaper salesman being repeatedly injured because the deliverymen keep throwing a large bundle of papers at him instead of leaving it on the curb.
* ''Film/{{S1m0ne}}'' had a radio broadcast version when the reporter said that things like the threat of nuclear destruction have all been overshadowed by the preparations for the Academy awards.
* ''Film/SpiderMan2'': "SPIDER-MAN NO MORE" gets a front page picture in the ''Bugle'', while a story about Doc Ock gets pushed to the back pages. Justified in that the [[DaEditor editor of the Bugle]] is [[Franchise/SpiderMan J. Jonah Jameson]], whose fixation on Spider-Man is legendary.
* In ''Film/TestPilot'', apparently every time Jim goes up to test a plane it is front-page, above-the-fold newspaper material.
* At the end of ''Film/VanWilder'', the main character's love interest gets a story published on the front page of the school paper chronicling Van's expulsion hearing. That's not the poor news judgment. That comes into play when you consider that the "story" is more of a trashy gossip column, filled with embarrassing sexual details about the writer's ex-boyfriend. Those sort of pieces do get published, but even a student paper isn't going to stick that on the front page of the graduation edition. Or any other edition, really. Then there's the framed front-page story about the difference between light and dark beer... by a journalist who goes on to win a Pulitzer.
* In ''Film/WillSuccessSpoilRockHunter'', a kiss between Rita Marlowe (who ''is'' a Hollywood celebrity) and Rock "Lover Doll" Hunter (still not used to the fame he caught from Miss Marlowe) makes headlines around the world in a montage. LampshadeHanging occurs with the headlines from foreign newspapers dissolving to "RUSSIA INVENTED LOVER DOLL" and "LOVER DOLL MUST BE FRENCH!"
%%* Apparently, in the Film/{{Zombi|2}}verse (as seen in ''Film/Zombi3D''), reports of the ongoing zombie problem are more important for a music station to broadcast than actual music.
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