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News Monopoly
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In movies and TV, the primary method for showing that something has become the news item of the moment is to have somebody flick through the channels on TV and find that every single channel is covering the same story simultaneously. To make things more convenient, sometimes every time they switch channels they find a new aspect of the story being covered, so that this random succession of sound bites adds up to a fairly cohesive television article. For example, Bob the jewel thief watches the news triumphantly: Bob switches channels. Bob switches again. And so forth. It's sometimes parodied by having him turn to a channel that normally wouldn't have the news — a cartoon channel, or MTV — and yet it's still talking about it. Another common gag is to have the different reports literally Finishing Each Other's Sentences or answering each other's questions. Expect a news-phobic Apathetic Citizen to stop flipping immediately if they do manage to find anything else on. Makes varying degrees of sense; when the story is about, say, a nuclear threat on the White House, you'd expect nothing less. But when it's something like a chimp loose on the freeway, it starts to get dubious. And even if it is important, flipping through channels never gives repeat information, even though it's highly unlikely that each broadcast started at the exact same time and covered all the points in the exact same order. Plus eventually you have to get to some shopping channel or college/school billboard or public access channel which would never break their format (or even have the ability) to report anything at all. Nevermind the fact that the various news channels are watching each other's broadcasts, and therefore information on breaking developments doesn't stay exclusive for long. This trope has for all intents and purposes replaced the Spinning Paper montage, which in movies of the thirties, forties and fifties was used to this effect by having the story appear as the front page of every major newspaper. See also Coincidental Broadcast, Worst News Judgment Ever, or Your Television Hates You for the non-news version. See Do Not Adjust Your Set if some interloper is replacing normal broadcasts with its message. The basic idea is Truth in Television. Examples |
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In Watchmen, Ozymandias sees the effect of a disaster by watching multiple news channels simultaneously and getting the message that has been sent. | |
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The Simpsons: Sent up in "Radioactive Man", where the channel breaks occur every syllable: Used also in "Homer Badman" 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. |
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Walt Disney Presents: The animated special Duck Flies Coop has Donald Duck quitting his job and leaving for parts unknown. To mess with Donald, Walt Disney orders his studio's publicity department to go all-out in spreading the news, which is followed by a sequence of Donald listening to reports about his departure on his car radio. | |
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Played with in Command & Conquer: Generals's Expansion Zero Hour. It's intro is played in this style, however each and every single one of the reports in full is actually part of the plot, serving as Exposition for the game's storyline, with one reporter on each side. | |
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A version of this was seen on The Weekenders, where Tish, angry that her friends have started using her name as a slang word, flips through the channels and discovers that every channel has some reference to "Tishing". (An advertiser is heard to say "It's Tishtastic!") | |
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Happens in a few DuckTales (1987) episodes: In "A Case of Mistaken Secret Identity", several talk shows are seen speculating on Gizmoduck's true identity. In "The Masked Mallard", several networks are covering the Masked Mallard's having turned to crime. |
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Also done in The People vs. Larry Flynt. Flynt, with multiple TVs, turns them all on to different channels, and when he finds out they're all focused on what's going on at his house, lets out a war whoop of joy. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls (1998): In "Daylight Savings", the Professor sets a 7:30 curfew for the girls, allowing Townsville's villains to rampage through the city with the girls unable to stop them. The reluctant Professor tries to get his mind off of it by watching TV, but every channel is reporting on the destruction until he finally finds solace on The Time Channel...where he finds out that he forgot to set the clocks back for Daylight Savings. After finally getting the girls out of bed and sending them out to save the day, he goes through the channels again, now reporting on how things are getting back to normal. | |
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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. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls Movie: While walking home from school, the titular girls stop in front of an electronics store and see several TVs, each on a different channel but all covering similar stories about them destroying Townsville. Shortly after they walk away, every TV switches to the same emergency broadcast of Professor Utonium being thrown in jail. | |
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Garfield and Friends: In Video Airlines, Jon was trying to watch TV, and every single channel was showing the movie Kung Fu Creatures on the Rampage 2. | |
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In the strip from the day of the 1992 election, Jason is watching TV and every channel is about to say who the winner of the election is. Jason panics and keeps flipping until he finds a channel showing an episode of Star Trek, and breathes a sigh of relief. | |
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Kingdom Come: Superman watching multiple reports of the Kansas disaster, each on a different monitor, in the Fortress of Solitude. | |
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I, Tonya: After Nancy Kerrigan is kneecapped, Tonya phones Jeff in order for him to watch television, as the news of Nancy's assault is on every channel. The discovery blindsides both of them, as according to their accounts in the film's interviews, the plan was to send anonymous death threats to Nancy, not physically attack her. | |
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In Starcraft II, this is the method Matt Horner uses to bring Jim Raynor up to speed on the Zerg invasion. Of course, when you have an event like this where billions of people are being killed, it ought to be on every station. The flipping itself is justified in at least one case, where a sudden explosion kills the news crew and cuts off the signal. | |
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Subverted in Being Human: Cutler tries to do this to show the elder vampires how the world is scared about werewolves. Sadly for him, it's been covered up, leading to flipping through a variety of unrelated TV shows to his annoyance and frustration. | |
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Run Hide Fight has a social media version when Tristan finds out that the school shooting he and his friends have been carrying out has become the number one trending topic on Twitter. Given that Tristan is an Attention Whore seeking Fame Through Infamy, he says "about time" when he sees this. | |
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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 Jay Limo. | |
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Used for dramatic effect in Joker (2019): the screen pans away from a wall of monitors, all reporting on either the death of Murray Franklin on live TV by The Joker, or the riots occurring in the latter's name throughout Gotham. | |
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Comically downplayed in Oshi no Ko: After Aqua publicizes that he and Ruby are Ai Hoshino's children, a list of five trending topics has four relevant ones. But dead in the middle is one for "Chainsaw-san". | |
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The third part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure has an interesting variant that combines this trope with Coincidental Broadcast. Joseph's stand gives him a clairvoyant ability when used in conjunction with certain objects: when he uses this on a television, the channel begins flipping rapidly, and the resultant melding of words from different speakers ends up spelling out a new message that gives the information he wants. | |
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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. | |
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In a FoxTrot comic from the mid-1990s, every channel is covering the O. J. Simpson trial, except for one that briefly diverts to mention a UFO landing on the White House lawn. In the strip from the day of the 1992 election, Jason is watching TV and every channel is about to say who the winner of the election is. Jason panics and keeps flipping until he finds a channel showing an episode of Star Trek, and breathes a sigh of relief. |
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The trope appears in Speed, when Howard Payne is watching several news channels at once, all covering the runaway bus. He muses, after detonating a secondary bomb and watching the reactions, "Interactive TV, Jack! The wave of the future, eh?" | |
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Doctor Who: This happens frequently on the new series. During episodes where aliens or creatures attempt to invade Earth, fictional news broadcasts (usually BBC News) will be shown explaining the situation and worldwide reaction to the event. "Aliens of London": The crashed spaceship is the hot topic on all news channels, and also Blue Peter (which is showing kids how to make a UFO-shaped cake). "Army of Ghosts": The Doctor is shown at one point flipping through TV channels, which are all devoted in some way to the regular appearances of the ghosts — not just on the news, but on talk shows, T-shirts, and even EastEnders. Subverted in "The Sound of Drums", where the Master flicks through various channels reporting on the upcoming First Contact, before finally settling down to watch Teletubbies. "The Sontaran Stratagem" has a news montage about the noxious gas spewing from every ATMOS-outfitted car on Earth. "The Power of Three" has one early on about the millions of mysterious black cubes that have appeared all around the planet. |
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Shaun of the Dead: Sent up, and mildly subverted in that only every other channel is showing the news and covering the story, while the other channels conveniently fill in the blanks in the sentences with unrelated statements. Eg: Played for Laughs when Shaun is at work selling a TV to some customers. A much creepier variation occurs later the characters turn on a TV to find out the news, and 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 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. |
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In the Godzilla (2014) novelization, just after the Hawaii battle between Godzilla and Hokmuto breaks out, this event naturally takes over just about every U.S. TV channel, breaking down the Masquerade which Monarch have spent decades enforcing. | |
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In Black Cat the Big Bad kills more or less every major world leader in one day. No one is talking about anything else, obviously. | |
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