Citizen Kane (1941)

We use the term “journalist” very loosely to describe Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles), who uses his newspapers as a bully pulpit to support his business interests and keep himself and his friends happy.

He’s the worst kind of publisher, someone willing to twist the truth for the sake of profit, even as he tells himself he has high-minded ideals.

He’s based on the real William Randolph Kane, who tried to use his journalistic empire to kill the movie.

People who try to bend journalistic enterprises to their own power are, inevitably, jerks.