Why doesn't Amy Adams' Sharp Objects character know the basics of being a journalist?

Vulture

Any reporter knows they need to take notes, but that's something that Adams' HBO character doesn't do when practicing journalism in the first episodes of Sharp Objects. "I know that Camille is a mentally unwell alcoholic who doesn’t even remotely have her life together," says Brian Moylan, "but this is something that she would have learned at her first city council meeting as a cub reporter. You need to record everything, spell people’s names correctly, and take notes so that if you forget any details when you sit down to write your story (or if someone accuses you of making things up after it’s published), you have a record of what went down. Her boss Frank Curry has faith she can do this job, so she couldn’t have proven herself totally inept in the past, right?" ALSO: Here's a rundown of all the journalism mistakes made on Sharp Objects.