Mr. Leonard is set to join the production as Paul Verrall, the journalist tasked with educating Billie Dawn, the showgirl and gal pal of the crooked mogul Harry Brock.
For instance, if you're a journalist tasked with covering a local fire, you might begin our piece like this: "Four apartment buildings on the 800 block of Cherry avenue suffered a severe electrical fire Saturday night.
So when tens of million of people saw a sprightly Canadian figure-skating pair perform flawlessly in their Olympic event, only to be judged inferior to an elegant but wobbly Russian pair, the journalists' task was clear: find out if the fix was in.
But that is typically the job of editors, not lowly journalists tasked with filing raw copy.
The Interview, which sees Seth Rogen and James Franco play US journalists tasked with assassinating the North Korean leader, was condemned by North Korea after its trailer was released.
Giving voters the power to rank votes would have cleared all of that up — for campaigns, citizens and the journalists tasked with accurately covering their views.
In recent years, the White House Correspondents Dinnerr has evolved into a star-studded affair and has been criticized by media figures like Tom Brokaw for blurring the ethical line between the president and the journalists tasked with covering him objectively.
After hearing of "The Interview," which stars Seth Rogen and James Franco as entertainment journalists tasked with killing Kim Jong Un, an "unofficial spokesman" for the regime told The Daily Telegraph that the film "shows the desperation of the US government and American society".
The journalist's task will be to provide "attractive formats" for such content.
DIANE H. GURIEN Kearsarge, N.H., Feb. 26, 2007 If the Times editors were so anxious to demonstrate the tenuous nature of this story as you suggest, why was the story prominently placed on Page 1? I recognize that a journalist's task is difficult.
"A journalist is tasked with making money for those who hired him," said Volin.
