In Media
Arnold Bennett's 1911 novel The Card features a newspaper take-over. Part of the success of the stratagem depends on the proprietor temporarily detaining all his rival's paperboys, which he does by promising them food and locking them in. The paperboys are depicted as a rumbustious and tight-knit group.
Tony Macaulay's memoir Paperboy (2010) tells the experiences of a paperboy in West Belfast in the 1970s.
Bob Thurber's Paperboy: A Dysfunctional Novel (2011) tells the experiences of a 14-year-old paperboy and his emotionally troubled sister during the summer of 1969.
Newsies, a 1992 musical film, directed by Kenny Ortega, is about the Newsboys Strike of 1899.
Better Off Dead features a paperboy on a bicycle that throws a newspaper through a closed window breaking the window glass. There are several paperboys in this movie.
In the 2001 Disney film Max Keeble's Big Move, the film's protagonist is a local paperboy.
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Famous quotes containing the word media:
“Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so—called educational system, which is nothing more than a system of rewards and punishments based upon one’s ability to pledge loyalty oaths to Anglo culture. The media and the “educational system” are the prime sources of racism in the United States.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“The media no longer ask those who know something ... to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it.”
—Serge Daney (1944–1992)