Just replace "Levy" with "Twitty" and "Holloway" and, um ,"Jug"

From The Newsroom episode "An Enormous Waste of Time," written and directed by Ken Finkleman (produced by the quietly subversive Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, of course).

On air, anchor Jim Walcott gets a little distracted tossing off to Chandra Berman, the local station's new sports reporter.

Jim: Great to have you, Chandra. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm thinking you must be pretty tired of people reminding you that you have the same first name as Chandra Levy. Am I right?

Chandra: Well, that doesn't happen a lot.

Jim: Well, she was a terrific woman and one that will be sorely missed.

Chandra: Uh, Chandra Levy, who was murdered over two years ago, was murdered, I believe, before the public had a chance to know her, Jim.

Jim: Well that's a very good point, and one that might just well be the real tragedy of this story: a public figure's life cut short before the public had a chance to appreciate who she really was. But you know, we all remember her parents so well from the Larry King show, and the suffering they went through night after night on national television, and it's actually almost a tragedy in itself that the body was found, and we won't be seeing the Levys on Larry on a regular basis anymore. You know, their courage was an inspiration to us all. And speaking of inspiration, talk to us about the winning streak that we're on!

Effin' brilliant.

Also featured in "The Newsroom" is an episode in which the news show's new producer seeks to recapture the glory -- and the ratings -- of the missing intern era, except that there aren't any missing persons in the local viewing area at the moment. Her solution: giving "the Chandra Levy treatment" to a missing show dog.

Effin' savage.


["The Newsroom" quote from City of Bigness.]