A scene from Citizen Kane 1941
Charles

Now look, Mr. Carter, here's a front-page story in the Chronicle about a Mrs. Harry Silverstone in Brooklyn who's missing. Now, she's probably murdered. Here's a picture of her in the Chronicle. Why isn't there something about it in the Inquirer?

Carter

'Cause we're running a newspaper...
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Carter

There's no proof that that woman is murdered, or even that she's dead...It's not our function to report the gossip of housewives. If we were interested in that kind of thing, Mr. Kane, we could fill the paper twice over daily.

Charles

Mr. Carter, that's the kind of thing we are going to be interested in, from now on.

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