There’s something darkly poetic about watching Jake Tapper announce live on air that his network’s parent company is being bought out, telling everyone in the studio that it “affects everybody I’m looking at right now.” It’s like watching the Titanic’s captain announce over the PA system that yes, that scraping sound was indeed an iceberg, and no, the lifeboats won’t be necessary because the ship is unsinkable. Except in this case, we all knew the iceberg was there, we watched the ship aim straight for it, and now we’re supposed to act surprised when the water starts rushing in.