Broadcast News

Continuity mistake: When the William Hurt character is talking to Holly Hunter after her boring lecture, the first shot (from behind Hurt) shows him walking backwards while talking to Hunter. As he continues to walk, he comes perilously close to banging his head on an archway. Yet, on the reverse angle, Hurt has been repositioned about five feet from where he was.

Continuity mistake: As Jane is walking to her position to produce the special report, the monitors behind her show Tom already seated at the anchor desk. In the next shot, he is just arriving at the desk. (00:45:35)

Continuity mistake: When Jane runs from her office to meet Aaron at a restaurant, before meeting Tom at the airport, her pink sweater remains draped on her chair. When she meets Aaron she is wearing it.

Other mistake: How could Jane not be aware that Tom had only used one camera for the date rape interview, recording his fake tears later? That's the way things are done on television news shows and as an experienced, hard-bitten television producer she could not possibly be unaware of that. The reporter always records his or her reaction shots (called 'noddies') after the interviewee has left. Shooting with two cameras would involve two crews, two lighting rigs, a vision switcher and so on and so on and a straightforward interview simply would not justify such a complex and expensive set up.

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