TV sucks because of the writing

Interesting story by Joel Stein at the L.A. Times about the challenges in writing for TV: "WHY DOES TV suck? I had always read that it was because clueless studio executives take good scripts and screw them up..."

http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/cl-oe-stein6feb06,0,5178032.story?coll=cl-tv-features