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Article: Can Michael Keaton solve media's image problem? A new TV movie, 'Live in Baghdad,' offers insights into journalism, an often-maligned profession in film.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- December 6, 2002
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Byline: Kim Campbell Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Name a famous actor and they've likely played a journalist. Jimmy Stewart? You bet. Denzel Washington? Think "The Pelican Brief." Mary Tyler Moore? Of course.
Saturday night, Michael Keaton dusts off his reporting skills for his second stint as a journalist in HBO's "Live from Baghdad," in which he plays a CNN producer working in Iraq in the days leading up to the Gulf War.
The fourth estate can use Batman's help, as journalists are in need of good PR. In a recent survey on dilbert.com - the website for the Dilbert cartoon - news reporters were named the weaseliest profession, ...