Whatever Happened to Research?

I remember back in 2000, when I was working on Foley is Good, the towering New York Times #1 best-selling follow up to my towering New York Times #1 best-seller Have a Nice Day. I was just a measly wrestler turned author, but I had stacks of library books on my desk, a notebook full of, um, notes, and a deep rooted desire to do as much research as possible on a chapter that was bound to be a contentious one; my feeling that the PTC (Parent's Television Council) was making erroneous, and...