Networks put on bad shows every season, but, although we're now aware that they sometimes know ahead of time that a show is a dud (Jeff Zucker, the head of NBC, has admitted this), NBC's attitude toward "The Jay Leno Show" signals a whole new level of indifference, resignation, and laziness.
"We are now aware of it, and we are going to fix it," he said.
"However, we are now aware that the LTDA has commenced private prosecutions in the Magistrates' Court against a number of individual drivers who use the Uber app".
"We have #Tajamuka which means 'we are now awake', referring to the fact that as Zimbabweans we are now aware of our rights.
"We are now aware of a specific and imminent threat to Westerners in Benghazi," the Foreign Office said, "and urge any British nationals who remain there against our advice to leave immediately".
That we are now aware of a far richer, deeper, more diverse history of plant and animal exploitation right across the globe is thanks, in large part, to the contribution of David Harris, who has died aged 83.
The network declined Wednesday to discuss its reporting, saying in a statement: "Like many other news outlets, we are now aware of the circumstances". The network said it would address the story later.
Of course, we are now aware that John le Carré (aka David Cornwell), was highly familiar with the secret world of espionage and counter-espionage but again, in 1963, this assuredness would have come across like a blast of keen cold air.
Here is a key passage from her speech (edited only to make it explicable to people outside Ireland who have not followed the details of a long-run saga): "We are now aware... that the former CEO of IBRC made verbal agreements with Denis O'Brien to allow him to extend the terms of his already expired loans..
We are now aware of several well-described complications of the sling procedure: urethral obstruction, de novo urgency, urethral/vaginal erosion, and infection.
"We are now aware of a terrifying reality - that governments don't necessarily need intermediaries like Facebook, Google, and Microsoft to get our data".
