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While Six Sigma's goal-oriented blather and obsession with measuring everything was jarring, it was also weirdly familiar, inasmuch as it was strikingly reminiscent of my college Maoism I class. Mao seemed to be a good model for Jack Welch and his Six Sigma foot soldiers; Six Sigma's "Champions" and "Black Belts" were Mao's "Cadres" and "Squad Leaders."

Continue reading "Television Watching: Dateline Exposed?"

A look at some noteworthy television this week:

More Trouble for NBC’s Dateline

Best headline today: "Homeowner complains of preservation perverts"

A guilty pleasure many people have is watching Dateline's To Catch a Predator. We assume so, because it's on a lot and because there's nothing as satisfying as watching people try to weasel their way out of chatroom transcripts and out of the clutches of swamp things. So we're glad that the Asbury Park Press and Staten Island Advance are keeping tabs on the show.

With Tina Fey gone from the writers' staff to primetimier pastures and Chris Parnell, Horatio Sanz and Finesse Mitchell axed from the staff, people were wondering how this season of Saturday Night Live would stack up. And while articles calling it "Saturday Night Dead" are a mainstay every fall, Gothamist wasn't very confident given that the host would be Dane Cook, who already hosted not even a year ago! Here's our thoughts about the season premiere:

After last year's mess of an awards show and this year's joke of nominations (where is love for Lauren Graham, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences?), we were going to swear off this year's Emmys. But then we realized Conan O'Brien was hosting, so we must watch and liveblog. And there's the hope of a good Steve Carrell bit, not to mention awkward reaction shots of Candy and Tori Spelling during the Aaron Spelling tribute.

- Ask for a nude photograph, and if they wouldn't agree, he would threaten to "plaster the bikini or lingerie shots around their schools unless they complied"Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau said, "Students think that because they're on a secure Web site like Facebook that they're safe from online predators. They're not." We cannot wait for Dateline to do a "To Catch a Facebook Predator" show!

A thief stole a briefcase containing $300,000 in diamonds from a midtown pub. The Daily News says that the Channel 4 Restaurant, at 58 West 48th Street, is "frequented by diamond dealers," which would make seem to make it the ideal place to case for some big hauls. Since the restaurant's manager told the News, "Pretty stupid isn't it? The last place I would be leaving a case of diamonds is on a chair in a bar," Gothamist would have to say this is maybe the second dumbest idea this week, next to the Snapple Popsicle incident. The robber asked to use the bathroom, and then grabbed the briefcase on the way out. The victim screamed and tried to get this bag back (he claims he struggled with the thief, but a bartender says it happened too quick), but the robber hopped onto a waiting motorcycle outside. The police are checking out "any discrepencies" in the victim's story. Nice.