"Human interest story" is a euphemism for stories about weak-minded, vulnerable, ignorant people, to fill in newspapers read by vulnerable, weak-minded, ignorant people.
Steve Coogan - Martin Sixsmith

“I made a great reporter out of you, Hildy. But you won't be half as good on any other paper and you know it. We're a team. That's what we are. You need me and I need you, and the paper needs both of us.”
Cary Grant - Walter Burns

“- Mollie Malloy: Aren't they inhuman?
- Hildy Johnson: I know. They're newspapermen.
- Mollie Malloy: All they've been doing is lying. All they've been doing is writing lies. Why won't they listen to me?”
Helen Mack - Mollie Malloy
Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

“I'm getting married, Walter, and I'm also getting as far away from the newspaper business as I can get.”

Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

“I don't know how to run a newspaper, Mr. Thatcher; I just try everything I can think of.”

Orson Welles - Kane