The just-hired news director Alex Rydell arrives at Los Angeles television station KXZX-TV's ""Re-Action News"" to find the investigative news team chasing the biggest society scandal to break in years; bickering anchors Harry Chandler Moore and Sherry Beck; a combative (and apparently targeted) right wing commentator Marvin Seaborn and a controlling General manager, Art Hennesey. All the while, Alex must come to terms with sudden single parenthood when his wife decides not to join him in L.A. and instead sends their young son, Sean, to live with his father. As the news director's first week on the job progresses, vain veteran anchorman Harry, who uses the on-air moniker ""The Beacon of Truth,"" bitterly protests when Alex insists that he team up with Sherry to conduct an interview at the White House with President Clinton. After the co-anchors, with young segment producer Nancy Lockridge in tow, arrive in the nation's Capital, they discover, while fighting in the Lincoln bedroom, a mutual
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