These Two Clips...

("Fit to Print" -- A cautionary documentary about American journalism circa 2010 [h/t AnnaTarkov])


...pair depressingly well.

("Broadcast News" -- A cautionary movie about American journalism circa 1987)

Imagine the wingnut coup leaders' surprise when they come up out of the basement down out of the mountains to seize control of the teevee stations only to find that, first, they have to dig through about a mile of shit to get to them.

After which they have to fight their way through a gauntlet of corporate sock puppets who just want to interview them to see if they think Obama is "angry enough".

Except of course at Fox: there "Murdoch's Marauders" will be greeted as liberators with sheet cake, bunting, a wide selection of Fox News pleasure 'droids, "Welcome Home" signs, and their own prime-time show right after Glenn Beck.