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	Scoop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A scoop is a colloquial term to refer to a news story (especially an exciting one) that is reported in a particular newspaper or magazine before it appears anywhere else, implying a high level of investigation skill; "a scoop" and a "scoop reporter" are highly positive assets for that newspaper's reputation.
		Hence, "a scoop" is a positive characterisation of a news story both within the competitive arena of journalism reporting, and among its readership.
		Scoops were the name of the specialized riot control trucks in Soylent Green that literally scooped people up off the streets.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scoop (351 words)

	MONTREAL CONFIDENTIAL
		As novels move up and down class ladders, between country and city and across their distinctive spatial and social topographies, the implicit boundaries which limit their dispersion into confusion have often been those of the nation.
		In Scoop, as in any number newspaper narratives, this stance is that of a benevolent reformism, but in the acts of disassociation which sustain it one can see the working out of a larger question: that of the moral vantage point appropriate to a modernized, national collectivity.
		Scoop presumes (rather than having to establish) the shared possession by its viewers of social, political and spatial maps, upon which the distances between here and there, or the deviant and normal are clearly marked.
	www.arts.mcgill.ca /programs/ahcs/montrealconfidential.htm (3443 words)

	Scoop (novel) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The novel is partly based on Waugh's own experience working for the (additional info and facts about Daily Mail) Daily Mail, when he was sent to cover (Italian fascist dictator (1883-1945)) Mussolini's invasion of (Ethiopia is a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; formerly called Abyssinia) Abyssinia.
		The novel is full of contrasted (yet seemingly identical) opposites: Lord Copper of the Daily Beast, Lord Zinc of the Daily Brute; the CumReds and the White Shirts, parodies of (A socialist who advocates communism) Communists and the (additional info and facts about Black Shirts) Black Shirts etc.
		Scoop was made into a 1987 British TV movie starring Michael Maloney and (additional info and facts about Denholm Elliott) Denholm Elliott.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sc/scoop_(novel).htm (233 words)

	Bill Deedes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The two men regularly played golf together, with Deedes claiming it was a public service to take the Prime Ministerial consort away from the stress of being married to the country's governmental head.
		Deedes was also the journalist used by Evelyn Waugh as the model and inspiration for the war hack Boot in the novel Scoop.
		Deedes was made a life peer in 1986, becoming Baron Deedes, of Aldington in the County of Kent, though has always been keener on being addressed by all as "Bill" rather than "Lord Deedes".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Deedes (356 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Scoop: A Novel About Journalists (Penguin Modern Classics): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Scoop is a classic example, essentially involving a mix up in the assignment of a plum overseas journalism posting to cover the Ishmalian civil war.
		Scoop is a classic that has long none of its relevance since Waugh satirised the haphazard process of news gathering and reporting.
		This is an incredibly funny novel, and a must read for anybody interested in the politics of the world during the 30's, or the farcical nature of the press.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0141187492 (953 words)

	It Should Rhyme with 'Laugh': Humor in Waugh - Ralph McInerny
		In Scoop, Waugh combines his contempt for journalism and Africa, but this is a light novel, beginning with a comic cliché, mistaken identity, and unraveling the delightful consequences.
		The novel is a hilarious send-up of the preparations for combat, men jockeying for position, Basil says that he wants to be one of those hard-nosed men who made a good thing out of the war.
		Scoop was an easier matter, and the results are on the same level of comedy as the novel.
	www.nd.edu /~ndethics/archives/waughlaugh.shtml (3773 words)

	‘Scoop’ on Iraq by Matthew Rarey
		The tin-pot dictatorship of a poor country with a rich natural resource becomes the focus of a war plotted by foreign powers and commercial interests, then fomented by a clueless press.
		Even Scoop’s boozy correspondents were innocent of such a sin of omission: they did not know there was gold in them thar hills.
		Like the correspondents in Scoop who attend Potemkin-style press conferences and take government officials at face value, the so-called "objective" reporting which is the meat of American journalism is no match for investigative reporting that respects no constituency but the truth.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig3/rarey2.html (1372 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| How Evelyn Waugh's life shaped his work
		Scoop best illustrates both the bizarre nature of Waugh's dented valuables, and the exquisite order in which he arranges them - political reversals, mistaken identities, children's stories, typing mistakes, a Latin telegram - all changed, changed utterly.
		The novel's interchangeable press magnates, Lord Copper and Lord Zinc - of the Brute and the Beast, respectively - are paralleled by Pip and Pop, the Bedtime Pets, in the Beast's Children's Corner.
		The novel ends on a chillier note: "Outside the owls hunted maternal rodents and their furry brood." It was 1938.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,1069758,00.html (2595 words)

	Books and Writing - 10/10/2004: Lord William Deedes - The Original Scoop
		In Evelyn Waugh’s novel Scoop, published in 1938, in which newspaper publisher Lord Copper mistakenly sends William Boot, a naïve nature writer, to report the war, and in the end he scoops the professionals.
		Readers laughed at the novel’s satire on journalistic malpractice, but when Philip Knightley’s book, The First Casualty, on lies in war reporting, was published in 1975, he said that it was far from being a brilliant parody.
		That is why in all his novels the dialogue is so good because his ear picked up the slightest folly, and he also listened to bores longer than I find convenient.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/bwriting/stories/s1215814.htm (3456 words)

	The Main Event: The Horror of The Slab!
		The Slab is the latest novel by Jeff Mariotte, who astute Scoop readers will remember as the author of the series Desperadoes from DC's Homage Comics imprint and his upcoming CSI comic.
		I'm working on a novel now, for instance, but I have a couple of proposals due, for other novels and a comic project, and I got notes back from a licensor for a book I turned in a month ago.
		The Slab is primarily a horror novel but a lot of it, maybe most of it, can be read as mainstream suspense.
	scoop.diamondgalleries.com /scoop_article.asp?ai=2887&si=124 (1430 words)

	BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - Evelyn Waugh
		Following the success of his first novel, Waugh moved to London and became famous as a sardonic chronicler of the frivolous upper-class society of the inter-war years, notably in the novels Vile Bodies (1930) and A Handful of Dust (1934) and the short-story collection Mr Loveday's Little Outing and Other Sad Stories (1936).
		A marked departure from his previous satirical style, this novel was a deeply serious examination of the workings of faith and providence in the lives of members of an ancient Catholic family.
		In 1957, his autobiographical novel, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, brilliantly describes the onset and development of a violent psychotic episode.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/waughe2.shtml (457 words)

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		The sheer beauty of Waugh's prose which is, at times, scarcely believable (see 'A blow, expected, repeated, falling on a bruise') is coupled with the outright hilarity of many passages (see the Belgian who feels as if it is his duty to oppose the lower classes everywhere).
		Amazon also sells (at a rather decent price) the 1981 BBC adaptation of the novel, starring Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews, which is unusual in that it is faithful to the letter and the spirit of the novel, and is really rather splendid.
		The novel, however, remains a towering acheivement, a heart-rending tale of loss and rejection, as well as acceptance and redemption.
	shopuk.lfgaming.com /index.php?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=0141187476 (809 words)

	Evelyn Waugh books from Randall House (805) 963-1909
		A lovely copy of the author’s second novel - one of the highlights of the twentieth century English fiction, rare in dust jacket.
		Soon afterward his first novel, Decline and Fall, appeared and his career was sensationally launched.
		In fifteen novels of cunning construction and lapidary eloquence, Time summarized later, Evelyn Waugh developed a wickedly hilarious yet fundamentally religious assault on a century that, in his opinion, had ripped up the nourishing taproot of tradition and let wither all the dear things of the world.
	www.randallhouserarebooks.com /lists/waugh.html (404 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Authors \| Waugh, Evelyn
		Waugh was writing short stories from the age of four; his first published work was an essay on the Pre-Raphaelites, followed by Decline and Fall, which brought overnight success at a brat-pack age.
		Evelyn Waugh's disdain for the cinema is revealed in memos he sent to the 'Californian savages' during negotiations over film versions of Brideshead Revisited and Scoop.
		In a little foreword to this novel the author entreats us to bear in mind throughout that his book is meant to be funny, and we have, though at times somewhat strenuously, to take him at his word.
	books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,5917,-137,00.html (428 words)

	Journalism Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		That was the source of the comic cables which appear in Waugh’s novel Scoop.
		As he had shown in his work for the Times five years earlier when he was reporting the Coronation of the Emperor Haile Selassie as their special correspondent, Waugh had a matchless eye for detail and a fine command of English prose.
		Like Lord Copper in Scoop, they wanted news of military victories so eventually there had to be a parting and another Daily Mail man, W F “Binks” Hartin, a friend of mine, was dispatched to relieve hem.
	doj.shef.ac.uk /js/deedes.htm (1389 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| Like Boot of the Beast I was off to war with 600 lb of luggage
		I was not to know that such extravagance would contribute to Evelyn Waugh's portrait of William Boot in Scoop, the novel he later wrote about journalists covering the war.
		Always fearful of missing a story, reporters on a major assignment often stick close together, so they packed into this relatively small hotel, close to the radio station from which everyone's copy had to be sent, sleeping four to a room but secure in the knowledge that they could keep an eye on each other.
		He needed the proceeds of Scoop to pay for his marriage to Laura in April 1937 and their new home.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/05/26/bodeeds26.xml (4562 words)

	Freeman Wills Crofts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Europe of the book is one in which people can travel anywhere, by boat or motorbike; it seems to be a universally commercial land, devoted to business enterprises; it seems profoundly at peace, in way that it will not be again for 70 years.
		Crofts' novel does seem somewhat anticipatory of later Big Caper tales, wherein thieves plot some big heist from a museum, say, complete with careful organization, and some technological gimmickry.
		Crofts' books are also oddly like the Stratemeyer syndicate novels: Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys are always meeting suspicious characters, whose sinister schemes they have to track down.
	members.aol.com /MG4273/crofts.htm (3013 words)

	Online NewsHour: Philip Roth Discusses Latest Novel The Plot Against America -- October 27, 2004
		Jeffrey Brown talks with author Philip Roth about his latest novel, "The Plot Against America," in part one of a two-part interview.
		Roth himself grew up in Newark, and in this novel, he's carefully depicted his own family in the 1940s: Father; mother; brother; and himself as a young boy.
		He said the idea for his novel came from a single line in a book by historian Arthur Schlesinger, stating that some Republicans in 1940 had considered nominating Lindbergh for president.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec04/philiproth_10-27.html (1194 words)

	War Correspondents - Their dirty little secret. By David Plotz
		In fact, the war correspondent is a victim of literature, the butt of an unfortunate libel.
		In 1937, Evelyn Waugh permanently tattooed the image of the war correspondent in his novel Scoop, the story of a hapless British nature columnist dispatched to cover a nonexistent war in an inaccessible African hellhole.
		Scoop broils the journalists as lazy, venal drunks whose "reporting" consists of visiting the hotel bar and whose sole talent is writing vivid dispatches about a war that isn't happening.
	www.slate.com /id/2058040 (1091 words)

	National Interest, The: Waughior - Book Review
		Deedes was sent to Abyssinia in 1935 at the age of 22, a novice reporter who had never traveled beyond Switzerland, and he has long been rumored to be the true-life character on which Waugh's William Boot was based.
		But while Waugh's Scoop, and its insights into journalism, can be seen as prescient, his wickedly dark view of the continent that inspired it can be seen in hindsight as even more foresighted.
		His novel Black Mischief,, written incredibly in 1932, could have easily been a parody of modern-day Africa's failed states and senseless, ongoing tribal conflicts.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2751/is_74/ai_112411732 (1107 words)

	Amazon.com: The Andromeda Strain: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When Scoop VII crashes a couple years later in the isolated Arizona town of Piedmont, the Army ends up getting more than it asked for.
		When someone in the novel said something I had to stop and try to remember who they were and what their role in the story was.
		This novel was simply a long pontification on the author's fascination with science instead of focusing on a plot of any kind.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345378482?v=glance (2389 words)

	Debut novelist Katherine Davies wins FosterGrant romantic novelist prize
		This is an astonishingly well-crafted first novel, peopled with believable, empathetic characters, and characterised by a poise and lightness of touch that evokes the magic and pathos of Shakespeare’s lovers and losers.
		The FosterGrant Romantic Novel of the Year Award was established in 1960 and is one of Britain’s longest-running literary competitions.
		Its object is to recognise excellence in romantic fiction, amongst the UK’s most popular literary genres, and the award is open to any book first published in the UK in the last year which embraces romance in its widest sense.
	www.spreckley.co.uk /rna (569 words)

	Scotland on Sunday - Week in Review - Putting the Boot into a Number 10 scoop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		IN COMMON with many other journalists, my favourite novel is Scoop by Evelyn Waugh.
		Its principal character, the young reporter William Boot, who secures the scoop of the book’s title, was based on William Deedes, then not long out of Harrow.
		He got his scoop because he failed to join in with, or for that matter to comprehend, the cynicism, worldliness and little conspiracies against the public which all the other journalists took for granted.
	scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /weekinreview.cfm?id=657102002 (1006 words)

	Scoop Power and the Power of Information
		Written in 1938, Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop depicts a comic world of dishonest war journalists caught up in a rebellion in the fictional African country of Ishmaelia.
		The novel is based, in part, on Waugh’s stint as a war correspondent in Abyssinia in 1935.
		Though at times Scoop seems more farce than satire, the pointed comic criticism of a powerful press gone awry is more effective precisely because it is entertaining.
	www.enotes.com /scoop/20651 (124 words)

	Decline and Fall and Rise Again (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Then, early in the Reagan-Thatcher era, his fame was renewed by the TV dramatization of his most loved (and hated) novel, ''Brideshead Revisited.'' The series was immensely popular, especially with young Anglophile neocons, some of whom carried around teddy bears in imitation of one of the characters.
		But it did Waugh's literary standing little good, presenting the novel as a middlebrow cocktail of snobbery, nostalgia, romanticized Catholicism and worship of the English country house.
		Some think his novels are spoiled by the same qualities that supposedly spoiled Waugh the man: snobbery, bigotry, sadism.
	www.nytimes.com /2003/08/31/books/review/31HOLTLT.html?ex=1377662400&en=e9b174778c9b6398&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND (725 words)

	Scoop Waugh's Humor
		Evelyn Waugh’s novel Scoop is a social satire, making fun of the people who inhabit its world and of the moral values of the world itself.
		As most satires do, the book serves to comfort those who are not rich, powerful, or socially dynamic, by showing that the eminent members of society are no better than the average person, and are, in fact, usually worse.
		In the real world, the privileged command what they want, while in Scoop the wealthy are so vague about their desires that they end up generally pleased with...
	www.enotes.com /scoop/20650 (136 words)

	The Scoop - Lloyd Alexander biographical sketch
		It took seven years of constant rejection before his first novel was at last published.
		Evoking an atmosphere of ancient China, this unique multi-layered novel was critically acclaimed as one of his finest works.
		This fantasy novel is a tale of a quest across a country torn between two competing forces.
	friend.ly.net /users/jorban/biographies/alexanderlloyd (957 words)

	Clueless reporter tracks elusive story in 'Scoop' - The Washington Times: Washington Weekend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Waugh's best-known novel, 1938's Scoop rates among his most gleefully audacious.
		Michael Maloney projects appropriate bemusement as William Boot, a mild-mannered nature writer accidentally assigned by the London newspaper The Daily Beast to cover a largely nonexistent civil war in the fictional African nation of Ishmaelia.
		Both a flawlessly structured deadpan farce, with a cutting-edge underlying message, and a belated coming-of-age story, "Scoop" manages the extremely tricky task of successfully translating subtle word-master Waugh's work to a broader canvas.
	washingtontimes.com /functions/print.php?StoryID=20040331-105429-2241r (762 words)

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