Daily Dialogue — May 21, 2019
“For the last six years, we’ve been playing catch-up. And now thanks to the President of the United States, who by the way has taken a shit…
“For the last six years, we’ve been playing catch-up. And now thanks to the President of the United States, who by the way has taken a shit all over the First Amendment, we have the goods. We don’t have any competition. There’s dozens of stories in here, the Times has barely scratched the surface. We have ten hours til the deadline, so… we dig in.”
— The Post (2017), written by Liz Hannah and Josh Singer
The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Journalist. Today’s suggestion by @michaelhag.
Trivia: This is Liz Hannah’s first produced screenplay which was picked up as a spec script on the Black List website by producer Amy Pascal.
Dialogue On Dialogue: At a base level, good journalists do precisely this — dig in. It’s also a nice dialogue side to lay out the agenda for what comes next.