The Execs --- Sitting around a long table in a... - RoyaltyUniverse

auto-quote: Sitting around a long table in a very tall room inside of a very, very tall skyscraper are six men wearing suits. The cheapest suit in the room, you should know, costs $3,500--and that's before you buy the custom fitting. Four of these six men are wearing extremely expensive watches, and two of them are wearing less expensive watches which match the color schemes of their suits. Whereas you and I spend the majority of our days working with our hands and feet--or, at the very least, our woefully tired fingers and eyes--these men spend their days ringing their brains of good ideas. At least, that's what they think they're doing. These men are television executives, and they're out to get you. You see, we, the audience of their channel, actually afford them their ostentatious, wine-soaked, caviar freckled lives. If it were not for us, they wouldn't be sitting around such a large table, in such a large room, in such a tall tower, wearing their expensive and less expensive watches and their expensive suits. You see, their lives lives are not in part, but entirely made possible through our purchasing power; through our subtle, yet profound manipulation. In a word, through our shopping . Today, these men have gathered to figure out precisely how they are going to continue to prosper in this, the greatest year of all time. Though they've been filling their brains with the optimistic articles of over-enthusiastic economists, all but one of them can't shake the feeling that they're going to have to do something special--something cunning--this year. Today--yes, today--they have gathered to figure out precisely how you and I are going to be tricked into buying things in the great year of 2010. Shall we listen in on their conversation? The portly one is beginning to speak. He's pointing a chubby finger at a graph that signifies a negative (and remarkably linear) correlation between a show's popularity and the success rate of its advertising. He looks worried; beads... more... - RoyaltyUniverse from FFDirect