though i appreciate your thoughtful commentary, i hardly believe that moviegoers, despite their ever-increasing ignorance, would believe that Bernard Shaw and CNN's appearance in LW would be anything less than a paid cameo appearance - despite the blurred distinctions (ie - less blatant use of CNN and BS because they are reporting on something that LW portrays as 'truth' within the confinds of their narrative using serious 'news' tones rather than a tone of obvious farce). LW is fiction, through and through: I tend to believe that audiences would remember that and therefore not take issue with CNN being part of the production. c. ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.sa.ua.edu/screensite