entertainment clout to get access to go behind the scenes at the news divisions of all the major networks. abc, nbc, cbs. exactly. they re letting him walk around and observe and see how he does business. they don t know what kind of script he ll write. he doesn t even know. but he turns it into something that s deeply satirical and really does kind of it s the story we know of a crazy an korman at a fourth-place net work that just wants to do anything it can to get people s attention. you interviewed a bunch of current anchors, bill o reilly, stephen colbert. did any of them see themselves? what did they tell you? they say their xetd or thes are howard behl, not them. but they embrace the idea something about television news itself clearly changed in the era after network. very helpful was keith olbermann, a huge fan of the film. i believe it came out when he was in college. something happened in the 1980s