Strangely enough (and completely true!): I looked down from my computer screen, which was displaying this thread, to look at the other thing I've been reading today: a profile of Ana Faris, by Tad Friend, in the 4/11 issue of The New Yorker. And what was THE FIRST LINE I saw on the page where I left off reading:
"Preston Sturges's first rule of the box office, 'A pretty girl is better than an ugly one,' is even truer today when when he decreed it, seventy years ago."
This is also completely true: Journalists were never the smartest guys in the room. Some of them thought they were, and some of them still do -- but that don't make it so....
The really smart ones have all taken buyouts.