She's actually been shown over and over again to be a good manager. Better manager than writer, in fact, since there is a clear goal and she (like a lot of good students) does better with assignments than open-ended "figure something out" writing career stuff.

…or Real Life. Albert Brooks predicted reality TV in 1979.

Yup. I remember when I realized that "'AWESOME MOVIE!' Some random FOX affiliate station" was a bad sign.