Word: egos
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...series American Tragedy (CBS, Nov. 12 and 15, 9 p.m. E.T.). Based on a book by Lawrence Schiller and former TIME correspondent James Willwerth, with a script by Norman Mailer--and contested in court by O.J., who tried to prevent its airing--it delves into the nest of brilliance, ego and sheer weirdness that was the high-priced Simpson defense. For the dream team portrayed here, justice is no science but rather a mix of fact-finding, gamesmanship, theater and politics--including the jockeying among Johnnie Cochran (Ving Rhames), canny, blustery and beset by late doubts about the client; Robert...
...Some news veterans blame the blunders on competition. "Making the first call is all a question of network ego," says Martin Plissner, former executive political director of CBS News. "It's a question of whose is bigger." Another problem is noncompetition. Networks share VNS data and then hire analysts, who race to crunch the same numbers. Competing operations might have more incentive to avoid errors - or at least wouldn't multiply them...
...their coverage, which is, in a word, so much b.s. - nobody needs that much time to rehearse "we're projecting a Democratic win in Massachusetts." The real reason is that not to release early violates the basic raison d'être of journalists, who live for those rare and ego-inflating moments when you're the one in on the secret and you decide when to let everyone know. And it's going to take a lot more than Florida to wean reporters off that...
...Perhaps Bush senses there's a smallness about newshounds too. Some of us want to get on the air just for the sake of the exposure, not because we have a new fact or idea to report. Mom was the first glamour TV gal - with matching ego - so she would have sympathized with us (if she wasn't stepping on our necks to get to the camera). She loved seeing herself on television, and she loved gossip. She had an undifferentiated hunger for the news, but she had a civics-class feeling about it. She thought all this information...
...there has to be an "it boy" or "it girl" to either praise or bash. It's crucial that Tinseltown have a "buzz" person of the month; everyone has to feel like they're responsible for creating and destroying stars. That way, no one can get too big an ego, no one can get too far ahead, no one can turn the power axis into a power black hole. There's only one exception to this general rule. When there's a presidential election, Hollywood unites against the Republican to ensure the Democratic candidate's victory. The Democrat becomes...