News Monopoly: Difference between revisions

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

** A much creepier variation occurs later in ''[[Shaun of the Dead]]'': the characters turn on a TV to find out the news, and [[Everybody's Dead, Dave|every single channel is only showing a Technical Difficulties card.]]

** At the end of the film, the same sort of montage selects various programmes showing {{spoiler|the uses tamed zombies are put to once the apocalypse wears off. The Sky News anchor is shown giving his horrified reaction to breaking the news and telling people what to do if attacked by zombies}}.

** Another based-on-fact film, ''The Life and Death of Peter Sellers'', has this when he is suffering his infamous octuple heart attack in Los Angeles in 1964; back in England his [[My Beloved Smother|mother]] is ''delighted'' to find out that he is sufficently famous that there are reports on his condition on both the BBC and ITV at once.

* ''[[Cars]]'' has a montage covering Lightning McQueen's disappearance, including a tiny Kei car with huge anime-esque eyes jabbering in Japanese, and an appearance by [[Leno Device|Jay "Limo"]].

 

== [[Literature]] ==

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

** Subverted in the episode "The Sound of Drums", {{spoiler|where Mr Saxon flicks through various channels reporting on the upcoming First Contact, before finally settling down to watch ''[[The Teletubbies]]''.}}

* Played for laughs in ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', in a skit where Bill Clinton, in bed with Hillary, tries desperately to find a news channel that is ''not'' discussing his sex scandal. No hope for him though, as even the ''weather report'' manages to weasel it in.

* Used in the pilot of ''[[Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip]]'' where every news channel is covering the show's producer's outburst on live TV about the crappy state of today's television landscape. It actually uses this to mock the quick formation of memes as every single reporter independently latches onto an analogy to the famous "I'm mad as hell" scene from ''Network''.

* Inverted in the British comedy ''Broken News'', which is based on someone supposedly flipping between 24-hour news channels, all of which are showing different stories, and the amusement comes from the start of one story feeding into a different one as the channel is changed.

 

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

** Used also in "Homer Bad Man" where, inexplicably, Homer allegedly touching a babysitter's butt is national news on every channel and Movie Of The Week fodder. You know things are bad when even Channel Ocho is having a field day at your expense.

** Including a Boxing Match which consists of [[Visual Pun|Two Boxes]] fighting.

** [[Your Television Hates You|There's a trope for that.]]

* Subverted in real life where, if a story's important, it won't be covered in the news.

** Unless it's on the level of the 1991 Gulf War, the attacks of September 11th, 2001, the transit bombings in London, England on July 7th, 2005, or [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|the OJ Simpson trial]] in which case try finding a channel that ''isn't'' covering it, and for hours on end at that.

** The same goes for a Presidential address (shown live) in the US.

** There are plenty of less-than-important stories that get wall-to-wall coverage as well. In fact, less-than-important stories seem to get more wall-to-wall coverage than important ones.

* Michael Jackson's death has become a "too true" example of a single story dominating several stations at once, and far beyond the expected [[24-Hour News Networks]]. The night of his death, NBC, ABC, and CBS scrapped most of their prime time schedules for tribute shows/news coverage. (Fox stuck with a ''[[So You Think You Can Dance]]'' live show, but there was a tribute to him at the top of the program.) Music video channels, even [[Network Decay]] victims like MTV, flooded the airwaves with loops of his videos. All in all, the coverage of his death, memorial service, etc. took up almost a month of round the clock coverage, even ignoring major global events like the revolts in Iran and a coup in Latin America.

** For a less recent example of the above, see Princess Di.

** September 11th, 2001 proved a rare exception to this. The Food Network broadcast a memorial graphic and nothing else. The coverage was so widespread that day, in fact, that a lot of the kids' networks deliberately ''didn't'' change their schedules so kids would have ''something'' safe to watch. The attacks didn't alter the Street, but a storyline was aired about a fire at the Fix-It Shop shortly afterward. (''[[Arthur]]'' had a similar storyline.) A lot of networks (especially networks that broadcast nothing but pre-recorded shows) were operated completely automatically back then. The only person on site might have been a lone security guard. It never occurred to the owners that there ''could'' be a national emergency serious enough to affect broadcasting but not serious enough for broadcasting not to matter. Nowadays most networks have at least one operator on duty in Master Control whenever they're on air for this exact reason.