Scoop (novel) - Definition

Scoop is a 1938 novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh about the rush of war reporters to a thinly disguised Abyssinia (now Ethiopia). In this satire of sensational journalism, a young man, the author of a regular column on placid country life for a London newspaper aptly named The Daily Beast, is sent by mistake to the fictitious African country of Ishmaelia where a civil war threatens to break out.

Scoop made into a 1987 British TV movie starring Michael Maloney and Denholm Elliott.

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