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...Regardless, even given the public-interest argument, does ABC owe it to you and me to keep "Nightline" on the air, even at the cost of millions in additional revenue that Letterman would bring? Or more to the point, does ABC owe us more than their competitors do? If ABC owes it to America to keep Ted Koppel on at 11:35 p.m., why aren't media critics jumping on CBS and NBC, who don't have an 11:35 news program to begin with...
...contend, with some justification, that this controversy shows the dangers of media consolidation: that giant corporations like Disney will gladly axe a top news show to make money. But in the golden age that these critics appearently long for, before cable, TV news was the monopoly of three outlets, ABC, CBS and NBC, run by paternalistic white men. If that wasn't media consolidation, what is? Paddy Chayefsky's "Network," which lampooned network heads as profit-driven morons willing to turn news into entertainment for ratings, came out years before "Nightline" ever made...
...career and husbands do not adequately differentiate the two, perhaps their approach to aging will. Distinguishing herself from the founder of Ms. magazine, CHER, 55, asserted, "I'm just not gonna Gloria Steinem out and say, 'Oh, no, I'm thrilled.'" In an interview to air this week on ABC's Primetime Thursday, the singer turned actress turned disco diva rejects the blather about the glory of gathering wisdom and laugh lines: "I would love to lie, but I don't think there's anything good about it." Lest one snicker over her attempts to fight aging with nips...
...symbiotic solution: send reality TV to war. Last week ABC announced Profiles from the Front Line, from producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down) and reality-TV wiz Bertram van Munster (Cops, The Amazing Race). The reality series, to air as soon as this summer, intends to tell the personal stories of soldiers in Afghanistan, the Philippines and beyond. On VH1's tentatively-titled Military Diaries (also aimed for summer), more than 60 soldiers with cameras will record their days and talk about how music helps them cope. (As Apocalypse Now taught us, rockin' tunes are integral to modern...
DIED. HOWARD K. SMITH, 87, impassioned, combative news broadcaster for CBS and ABC; in Bethesda, Md. Smith, who in 1960 moderated the first-ever televised presidential debate (between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon), believed that journalists should take stands on some issues. He left CBS when CEO William Paley barred him from punctuating a 1961 documentary on racism in Birmingham, Ala., with the Edmund Burke quote "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing...