SCENE: A busy office at a major news network. Ira KATZ and Melyssa HOOPERMAN-BELL, two senior network executives, are discussing an upcoming newscast.
KATZ: OK. So we’ve got this piece on the revolving door between Fox News and the Trump White House.
HOOPERMAN-BELL: Excellent. I hate Trump.
KATZ: Everyone hates Trump.
HOOPERMAN-BELL: And this connection between them and Fox News is a threat to democracy.
KATZ: Unprecedented.
HOOPERMAN-BELL: Who should do it?
KATZ: Stephanopoulos.
HOOPERMAN-BELL: Definitely Stephanopoulos.
And SCENE. Always, forever SCENE.
Hey, don’t knock Stephanopoulos. He is the only journalist who knew that if you wanted to interview Hillary, you had to write a big check to The Clinton Foundation.
When his peers caught wind of it, he said, “Hey, that’s how it works” and more checks came flying.