Foreign correspondent! I could get more news out of Europe looking in a crystal ball. (Mr Powers, editor of the New York Morning Globe)
MR POWERS: I don't want any more economists, sages, or oracles bombinating over our cables. I want a reporter. Somebody who doesn't know the difference between an ism and a kangaroo. A good, honest crime reporter: that's what the Globe needs. That's what Europe needs.
MR POWERS: How would you like to cover the biggest story in the world today?
JOHNNY JONES: Give me an expense account and I'll cover anything.
MR POWERS: I'll give you an expense account.
JOHNNY JONES: Okay, what's the story?
MR POWERS: Europe.
JOHNNY JONES: Well, I'm afraid I'm not exactly equipped, sir, but I can do some reading up.
MR POWERS: No no, no reading up. I like you just as you are, Mr Jones. What Europe needs is a fresh, unused mind.
JOHNNY JONES: Foreign correspondent, huh?
MR POWERS: No, reporter. I don't want correspondence, I want news.
(Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent, 1940)
