Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Thursday, May 27, 2004


Along with its brilliant PR ploy to get people to watch SUPER BORE ADS, USA Okay (aka THE PAPER OF RECORD LITE) pioneered the tradition of paying excessive attention to THE UPFRONTS, that combination carnival and sweepstakes where ad bigwigs make advance commitments to waste billions of their companies' money so they can tell a good story back at the office about which stars they met. By reducing television to ad commitments NEWS HACKS did the impossible: they reduced the quality of television.

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