The Business of a Free Press is Still Business

Peter Finch as TV news anchor Howard Beale in the film Network, written by Paddy Chayefesky, directed by Sydney Lumet (MGM, 1976).

The right wing punditocracy over on Fox News was not having its share of all the fun as they watched their target audience wreak havoc in our nation’s capital on January 6, 2021.

In fact, the stars of the prime-time lineup — beside GOP House Leader Kevin McCarthy, as we learned in Trump’s second impeachment trial — were busy trying to convince President Donald Trump to call off the…