Food is worshiped politicized, serves as the common ground for late night hookups, early evening gettogethers, billions in annual book and magazine sales, more billions in advertising, and not to forget the pedestal upon which most anyone, from bored homemaker to crazed frat boy, can stand and establish a profitable presence among peers and adulating onlookers.

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As they sat in their cushy Avery Fisher Hall seats listening to ABC brass carry on with its digital opportunities and its self-adulating remarks, they weren't wrong to think the impossible was happening: that ABC would go the way of General Electric 's NBC, which presented its fall slate glitz-free on Monday, and scale back on the pageantry.

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As they sat in their cushy Avery Fisher Hall seats listening to ABC brass carry on with its digital opportunities and its self-adulating remarks, they weren't wrong to think the impossible was happening: that ABC would go the way of General Electric 's (nyse: GE - news - people ) NBC, which presented its fall slate glitz-free on Monday, and scale back on the pageantry.

FORBES: ABC Brings Back The Glitz