ANDREW KLAVAN ON JOURNALISM: It’s Brian Williams All The Way Down.

From the movie Broadcast News, there’s this:

Aaron Altman: What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he’s around?

Jane Craig: God!

Aaron Altman: Come on! Nobody is going to be taken in by a guy with a long, red, pointy tail! What’s he gonna sound like?

[hisses]

Aaron Altman: No. I’m semi-serious here.

Jane Craig: You’re seriously…

Aaron Altman: He will be attractive! He’ll be nice and helpful. He’ll get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation. He’ll never do an evil thing! He’ll never deliberately hurt a living thing… he will just bit by little bit lower our standards where they are important. Just a tiny little bit. Just coax along flash over substance. Just a tiny little bit. And he’ll talk about all of us really being salesmen. And he’ll get all the great women.

That movie is a forgotten classic. Also, the sit-on-the-coat trick works.