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...complete with fitness club, in the remote office-park suburbs of Washington. Its comparatively quiet newsroom culture doesn't make for juicy media gossip. Rather, it just discreetly makes its way into the hands, and consciousness, of more Americans than any other newspaper. Says Mark Halperin, political director for ABC News: "The media elites in Washington and New York who don't read USA Today unless they're traveling underestimate its influence in the lives of Americans." Walter Shapiro, a USA Today political columnist, says, "There's no greater feeling than being out somewhere in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina...
Source: New York Times; ABC News; AP; Christian Science Monitor
...another set of reality shows make over identities. On E!'s forthcoming Facing Fame, subjects are made to look like their favorite celebrity. On ABC Family's Switched!, a teenage rodeo queen swaps lives with a New York City girl...
...inhabit a new lifestyle if you have to do it in that dumpy old body? Extreme Makeover, the only one of ABC's late-season blitz of reality shows to make fall's prime-time schedule, has petitioners beg, Queen for a Day style, to win packages of plastic surgery, cosmetic dentistry and sundry other injections and deletions. It's not surprising that Extreme is crass, but it is also maudlin. (As is TLC's plastic-surgery show, A Personal Story. In its credits, words float across the screen: LIPOSUCTION ... SELF-ESTEEM ... BREAST AUGMENTATION ... DIGNITY ... RHINOPLASTY.) A stay-at-home...