Print Isn’t Dead for ‘Birdman’ Star Michael Keaton

Although Keaton garners accolades for his dark comedy roles, he has played characters that fit his real persona of an avid newspaper reader. In The Paper, Keaton played a newspaper editor and in Live From Baghdad, he played a journalist.
Print Isn’t Dead for ‘Birdman’ Star Michael Keaton
Michael Keaton at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. Keaton reveals his interest in current events by posting newspaper articles on his social media accounts. Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP
Arleen Richards
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Lead actor in the 2015 Screen Actors Guild award-winning film Birdman, Michael Keaton did not take home the most outstanding actor award. But that’s no skin off his back. Keaton already won four other best actor awards this season for Birdman and one for Beetlejuice in 1989.

Although Keaton garners most accolades for his dark comedy roles, he’s notably also played characters that fit his real persona of an avid newspaper reader. In The Paper, Keaton played a newspaper editor and in Live From Baghdad, he played a journalist.

You can just take a look at Keaton’s Twitter page @MichaelKeaton and see that he often tweets comments about news and politics.

Best sec of state in many years.
Michael Keaton, about John Kerry

Keaton’s interests range from climate change to President Obama’s State of the Union address, which Keaton called “pretty damn good.” He also thinks Sec. of State John Kerry is “Best sec of state in many years.”

He is known for posting on his Twitter account announcements of photos of newspaper articles he posted on Instagram—eight of such posts in January so far.

In addition to posting an article with a photo of Kerry embracing French President Francois Hollande, Keaton posted articles about climate change, natural gas drilling, methane in the air, unemployment, Canadian pipeline oil, and the death of former Governor Mario Cuomo.

Arleen Richards
Arleen Richards
NTD News Legal Correspondent
Arleen Richards is NTD's legal correspondent based at the network's global headquarters in New York City, where she covers all major legal stories. Arleen holds a Doctor of Law (J.D.).
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