Happy Labor Day weekend, I’m Dylan Byers.

Welcome back to In The Room, my biweekly private email revealing the inner workings of the media industry. Today, I turn to the shockwave of recent personnel changes within the linear TV news landscape, and how they’re all gesturing at the same, wistful goal: resuscitating a format that’s long past its prime.

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After all, let’s be honest: NBC News is already a chaotic brand architecture, a tug-of-war zone encompassing liberal valhalla MSNBC, the more staid nightly news program, a general interest news website that seems mired in another generation, and much much more. Meet the Press is a historic Sunday show that didn’t really ever have the brand permission to veer out on its own. I’m not trying to be obnoxious here; Todd is a respected and well-liked guy, but it’s just not clear what Meet the Press looks like beyond a staged and choreographed interview show with Beltway influencers. In fact, on a macro level, media is following the long arc toward authenticity, and MTP belongs to a generation when television news was theatrical and grand. Alas, you can’t turn back time...