The disgraced reporter Stephen Glass gets the biopic treatment in the form of Hayden Christensen for 2003's Shattered Glass, a look at Glass' so-called career fabricating large-scale features for The New Republic, among others who should have known better. Tara and Jacob are joined by Halifax journalist Kim Hart Macneill.

Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney star in Bad Education, a new HBO movie about the real-life largest school system embezzlement scam in New York history—all uncovered by an intrepid high school student journalist.

It's 2015: Judd Apatow is the king of comedy, Brie Larson is playing a supporting character, and Amy Schumer is one of cinema's worst journalists. Welcome to the Trainwreck cinematic universe, where a good relationship is impossible and so is not sleeping with your sources (Bill Hader); perhaps the two are related? Join Tara and Jacob as they grapple with their guilt over liking the movie but hating its handle on journalism (none).

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We're mad as hell and we have to take it, because the government said so! But back in 1976, Paddy Chayefsky sent up the TV news business with this four-time Academy Award-winning tale of a man pushed to the brink and the nation he radicalized. (Or did he?)Tara and Jacob get drunk, cheat on their wives, and talk about the good old days.

A once-muckraking newsroom of counter-culture idealists now struggles with dwindling finances and journalistic disillusionment. Is it every newspaper across the world? No! It’s this week’s movie—Between The Lines, AKA the best (and only?) alt-weekly newspaper movie ever made. Jacob and Tara talk about how eerily this 1977 Joan Micklin Silver film mirrors their own newspaper experience, as well as asking for raises, weirdos walking in off the street, and Jeff Goldblum as Jeff Goldblum. As the tagline says, “it’s fun, adventure and romance, all on $75 a week.”

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Hold me closer tiny dancer because it’s our debut episode and we’re talking about the incendiary Almost Famous. Golden gods Tara and Jacob discuss the importance of being uncool, the ethics of access journalism, and the death (???) of music reporting. Plus, is the fact checker at Rolling Stone justified in her hatred of William? It’s all happening.

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