Updated: Why ‘The Front Page’ is the best newspaper comedy of all time

So how come journalism isn’t funny anymore? In the classic stage comedy “The Front Page” – the best play about newspapering ever written – Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur found in the gaggle of rascally newshounds in 1928 Chicago a rich vein for farce, with flourishes of melodrama and satire. The reporters are invested by […]