Well, it may not end up being Larry King, but a national "news" show of some sort. I don't see the host actually playing into the action. The crisis is that "both" are invited to appear at the same time.
OK, gotcha.
I still have to think of something for my Boromir guy to want to do. Needs to be something that he thinks will help himself and his family, but that would affect a greater number of people for bad. So he's not doing it out of malice but out of...well...kinda hard headed stupidity. My little brother suggested having him put some small research company out of business in the process of not going out of business himself, but that research company was about to come up with a cure for something or some other swell scientific breakthrough. Guess that might work. As long as it's good for a couple thousand words, who cares, right?