The department is moving forward unilaterally, despite five years of negotiation, in which the Police Protective League argued that the financial disclosure requirements are overly intrusive and lacking in checks and balances. This invidious requirement will subject police officers in special units and their families to a more intrusive invasion of personal financial privacy than that required of elected public officials who file financial disclosure forms. There are also no procedures in place to protect records from fraud, or from malicious exposure through the court system.

Choose somebody prominent from showbiz whose once hot career has cooled. (After all, former journalist Peter Bart was a down-on-his-luck studio exec and producer when he took over at Variety...) Pitch it as a prestige thing to do next to running a film school. Let's get candid here; a trade isn't real journalism anyway. So re-establish the Reporter as the print and online place for softball coverage of the studios and networks and agencies, and as the friendly trade where no pesky questions are asked and press releases are run exactly as written. The town will love it, and pretty soon the Reporter and its website will fill with ads. So get those resumes ready, gang.