Medium Cool/YMMV


 * Anvilicious: The film's message.
 * Of course, it's a complicated message about media exploitation of real life Conflict for entertainment (which obviously went unheeded), and Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped.
 * Harsher in Hindsight: The film's central message (see: noun, reality television).
 * The lyrics from the page quote were written three years before Kent State, although people got killed in '68 as well.
 * Tear Jerker: The MLK retrospective that the protagonists watch on TV.