post the hundred-fifty-third, 2013

ironic that when the tools have reached the point that news could be reported with a high level of accuracy, integrity, and on-the-nose timeliness, news outlets have completely gone to hell in and/or out of business. 

we're watching "broadcast news" - a major motion picture released in 1987. in it, holly hunter plays an idealistic young network news producer who's frustrated by and bucking against the lack of seriousness in The System and consistently believes in her self-righteous rightness. william hurt is a pretty-faced, empty-headed young recent promotion from local sports to network reporter who is tortured by his intellectual shortcomings and status as outsider. albert brooks plays a notquiteso recently promoted, notquiteso shallow, notquiteso young network news reporter who hides his insecurities behind a mask of humor. jane cusack is a flighty, spastic, loud, oddly-dressed young production assistant who is stubbornly kind and consistently under-appreciated. 

in other words, they play in '87 precisely the characters they'll repeatedly play throughout their entire careers.