Agencies In Mainstream Culture

I just saw the trailer for She's Out of My League (linked to, rather than embedded, for some crude humor), which, as far as I know, may be the first major studio release to have a major character who is a Transportation Security Administration employee. I've got mixed feelings about that. I do think it's good for "government employee" to be a broad category of employment that people have in movies, along with other tropes like architect, lawyer, journalist, etc. On the other hand, I think it's unfortunate that giving the main character in this movie a TSA job as a way of signaling that he's kind of a schlub. If, as I think makes sense, the Department of Homeland Security wants to create an increasingly professionalized, intelligence-oriented TSA that has more in common with, say, Israeli flight security, than the privatized efforts of yore, pop culture portrayals like this aren't going to help.