Even among my friends who have no reason to doubt me, the time-tested conflict between journalistic brains and beauty is as polarizing as ever before.

Some of them are sure that as a journalist's looks get better, their ability to write or report or think plummets. And that's why I was pumped to see FOX's new unscripted series, "Anchorwoman."

Little did I know it would die before I could see the first episode.

Having drawn only one-third the viewers FOX's "So You Think You Can Dance" had in the same time slot a week before, the network cut loose this summer series about Lauren Jones, a former beauty queen and WWE Diva trying to find her way as an anchorwoman at KTYX-19 in Tyler, Texas.

I like Tyler, Texas. As far as I'm concerned, East Texas is God's country. However, it was a perfect setting for this show because Tyler does exhibit, let's say, some small-town qualities.

Besides, it's a market small enough to have a station desperate enough to give a stunt like this a try while at the same time being a market big enough to actually be considered a market. For example, my hometown of Henryetta, Okla., is not market No. 1,226,484. It's just not a market.

Without rehashing the entire gist of the series, which gets boring in a review after review, I'll merely summarize the show.

Hot chick comes in to be one of the station's 5 p.m. anchors. Her colleagues hate her, not just for her "looks" but because she can't write or report or do anything television journalists do. However, she tries really hard and messes up even more, and the whole world's really laughing at her, not with her.

If it doesn't sound like an original premise, you wouldn't be alone in thinking that. However, the newsroom environment was 100 billion percent right-on the money, and the people living their regular lives as news directors, photographers, reporters and anchors, not to mention directors and board ops, etc., were spot-on as to their reactions and behaviors toward her.

Never once did I feel like anybody was acting.

What's more, there was a dry, almost cruel, belly-laugh-inducing humor underscoring this dialogue of "Anchorwoman" that I honestly think will make this cult viewing for newsrooms across the country. The line, "So, will we all jump out of the truck and act all 'newsy,'" will be repeated -- guaranteed -- 10,000 more times this year alone in newsrooms across the country.

The line, "We're always live, baby girl" will, too.

It matters not to me that you, the American public, didn't watch this. FOX has graciously decided to post all other episodes on its Web site. Fact is, history will show that "Anchorwoman" was a bomb beyond all bombs.

But my guess is that this might be the most quoted show in newsrooms across the country over the next five years. I thought it was brilliant, so America can suck it.