News Summary

• There is a partially despairing, partially self-congratulatory vibe running through journalism-focused TV and movies this fall.
• Peacock's The Paper, Apple TV+'s The Morning Show, FX's The Lowdown, and Netflix's The Woman in Cabin 10 offer their own visions of who newspeople currently are and what the news should be.
• In all four stories, journalists are presented as underdog heroes facing off against the rich and the unsympathetic.
• Whether these projects spend much time analyzing exactly which powerful forces sowed the doubt journalists now face in the first place, and how they achieved that degradation of general trust, remains to be seen.