hey already have Will Smith, Denzel Washington and Cuba Gooding Jr all fighting over who gets to play Obama in the feel good movie, The Obama Story

contextual point.

These seemingly "little" things, are often the detonator of a huge explosion that was masterminded by people with a very specific agenda to derail a candidate.

I'm not surprised anymore by these kinds of actions. There is nothing at all trustworthy about any of the Conglomerate Media Networks.

True, occasionally they do their jobs, as with ABC's investigative report re Bush's cabinet choreography of approved torture techniques.

The way I see these abberations from the norm (the norm being collusion with the corporatist interests of American and multi-national business men and women) are as tosses to their employees, those few journalists who are left in the TV news industry, for purpose of refuting the overall accusations that they are no longer interested in real news (they aren't), and for marketing purposes in vying for prestige awards like Pulitzer prizes, etc. Even though such aberrations from the conglomerate business-interest norm seem to hurt that agenda, those in the Boardrooms know that the system can withstand a certain degree of truth telling, and absorb those shocks by the day to day programming that will offset those revelations, and go back to obfuscating the news at large.

Our only hope is citizen TV media -- like Marcy Wheeler, Josh Marshall, and the handful of other "on air" talent that is emerging within the progressive blogosphere.