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...Percentage of politicians portrayed on prime-time network TV since 1992 who have been white, males...
This, if you're wondering, is a compliment. Since his time at TIME, Andersen has been a founding editor of Spy, the editor in chief of New York, a producer of network specials, a staff writer for the New Yorker. He knows the three points of the buzz compass--Manhattan, Hollywood and the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash.--as well as anyone. Or at least as well as anyone who has so keen an appreciation for the pomposities, vapidities and idiocies that constitute the murmur of our times. As his chief characters--a former journalist edging into sleazy television infotainment...
...nearly every page on its own is alive with wit and observation and sparks of inspired nastiness, it's thrilling to pick it back up, for exquisite set pieces on the man who introduced "female butt cleavage" to network TV, on the four meanings (three of them ironic) of the term "your friend," on corporate travel (flying business class is "a protection racket--you pay extra, or you just might get roughed up in coach...
...capacity for cheesiness is so vast that everything he imagines could, and probably will, happen. "Push TV," for instance, which can't be turned off: "Pressing the off button only switches the set to a low-power mode, during which advertising copy appears noiselessly on the screen." Or a network's "Seamlessness Initiative": the characters in each show connect to the characters on all the other shows, so that "the star of the afternoon soap opera The Naked and the Damned (formerly Trailer Park) would appear as a contestant on the game show Quacks like a Duck...
AFTER HOURS Talk about bad market timing. Just as SEC chairman Arthur Levitt was warning last week about the dangers of online trading, Instinet--the network that lets brokerages and mutual funds trade stocks after the closing bell--said it would soon afford retail investors the same privilege. Before long, sleep-deprived traders in their pajamas should be clicking trades through cyberspace all night long, potentially saving money by having their trades executed faster. Retail investors will still route their trades to Instinet through brokers--online and otherwise--but they'll be able to react to late-breaking news. Both...