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Impossible For Them To Cover 2016-2021


Part of me thinks it would have been great for this show to have still been around for the 2016 Election, as well as the Trump Administration. But then I think about it a little more, and I realize they would not have been able to cover it on the show the same way they did previous events. And the biggest reason for that is that anytime they ran a story that made Trump look bad, he would have responded. If ACN and Will McAvoy really existed, then anytime they reported something that Trump didn't like, he would have responded by numerous nasty tweets, or with long rants during rally's. And they would have had to cover that on the show, which they couldn't since they didn't happen.

Conversely anytime they ran a story that made Trump look good, or the left look bad, Will would get blasted by the left for being a puppet of the GOP, and drinking their propaganda kool-aid.

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It was hard enough following the real daily news from 2016-2021. It was fatiguing. Not sure I’d have the stamina to watch a fictional news show which revolves around the same news stories. Not sure it could even keep up. Even 24hr news networks struggled to cover breaking news while trying to do follow-ups on investigative stories.

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When I first started watching it years ago, the user if very contemporary stories made it hard to enjoy. I started watching it again, recently and the temporal distance is making it more enjoyable.

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I agree with that, entirely. Just watched it in 2022 and it was much more enjoyable than when I tried watching it when it was new. It's nearly forgotten about many of the news stories it covered, or at least didn't think about them all the time.

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That would have given them some great publicity.

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