Beschreibung:
<jats:p> Novelist Evelyn Waugh's assignment as the London Daily Mail's Addis Ababa correspondent reporting the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935–1936 inspired him to write Scoop, a biting satire of the Addis Ababa correspondents. While journalism scholars are aware that Waugh's wartime experiences inspired Scoop, researchers have not investigated the book's origins in depth. This study examined Waugh's criticisms of the correspondents' scoop mentalities by investigating the real scoop satirized in Scoop-of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie's secret deal with an American business consortium to excavate the country's mineral and oil reserves. In their obsession to get scoops, the correspondents colluded with high-level sources and failed to question sources' motives. Waugh's criticisms of the correspondents' obsessions to get scoops, although not original, reached a wide audience and influenced popular beliefs about war reporting and war correspondents. </jats:p>