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That's Infotainment!

In the wacky world of Channel 7's Deco Drive, failure is success, fluff is substance, and all those changes are good, good, good!

Nothing about Janet Reno's deliberations about whether to launch a probe into the White House fundraising scandal. Nothing about the Miami City Commission's budget-recovery plan. Nothing about Albania, Israel, or Zaire.

"You want it to be newsworthy but you don't want it to be depressing," Jacobs explains. She leans even farther forward over her elbows and smiles. The phone rings but she ignores it. "You might see the same story [on other newscasts], but when you see it on Deco it won't be presented in the same way. It'll have that Deco spin. The way Deco's going to present it, you'll kind of go, 'Ahhh! It's different!'

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