Top 7 Films that Show Washington D.C. Beyond Politics — theculturetrip.com

Enter your writing to The Culture Trip Award & you could win $3,000! #tctaward We are offering a $3,000 prize for a student or recent graduate whose article on The Culture Trip attains the highest readership within 3 months of publication, $2,000 for the second most-read article and $1,000 for the third most-read article. Politicians would be very lost without the media and because of this Washington D.C. is understandably the home of many prominent TV news channels. With its innocuous title, Broadcast News could go one of many different ways. The fact that it is written, produced and directed by The Simpsons executive producer James L. Brooks will probably tell you that it is more Anchorman than Control Room, although it still does raise some interesting questions about journalistic integrity throughout. Billed as a romantic comedy-drama, the film follows three very different characters who work in television news as they fight to get ahead. Broadcast News brings a world that is alluded to in many films to the center stage and gives some interesting, if hopefully not fully truthful, insights into the TV news industry.

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