How The Theatre Slanders Benevolent, Hard-Working Editors Who Only Want What’s Best

“If you’re a newspaper editor on stage or screen, you are, as often as not, crusty, loud and easily exasperated. … In fact, almost as antique as newspapers these days is the fictive depiction of the hard-boiled editor, sometimes played as an all-bark, no-bite softie and other times as an incorrigible schemer.”