because what could better exemplify this precise moment in time than a white house correspondent with a hairdo from “the hunger games badguy salon” asking the presidential spokes-moppet what they plan to do about twitter becoming more popular because of free speech and what tools they have to block “disinformation” it will now carry?

i mean, yowsa.

this is a dying guild system desperately seeking to defend the last of its captured privilege and prerogative.

and it is singularly ugly.

they need to be the only ones speaking.

because they know full well that no one will listen to them if given a real choice.

and that they will die out here in the wild.

hard to have much sympathy though…

honestly, watching them try to grapple with even obvious, run of the mill parody is a whole new genre of parody unto itself. (admittedly, unwitting self-parody)