Scoop
A newspaper baron confuses the paper's nature columnist with a fashionable novelist of the same surname and sends him to cover a war in the African republic of Ishmaelia. Knowing nothing and wanting less, William Boot files almost nothing, while the assembled press corps invents its dispatches from the hotel bar. Fleet Street skewered in one farce.
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