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