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There are some who argue that because of the story's potential to harm the U.S. abroad, Newsweek should not have published it, even if it were true. Robert Zelnick, chairman of Boston University's journalism department and a former Pentagon correspondent for ABC News, draws a distinction between Abu Ghraib, where there was a systematic pattern of prisoner abuse, and the allegation of an isolated act of Koran desecration at Guantánamo, however deplorable. "In this case," he says, "I think the potential for mischief was so great and the journalistic value of the information so small that...
...Every network has new shows to announce, but each takes a different story into the upfronts. ABC, having shot into contention for the top of the ratings with "Lost" and "Desperate Housewives," will be in full-on gloat mode. NBC, which went from first to fourth place in one year among the crucial 18-to-49-year-old viewer group, will be in full-on crisis-management mode (to the delight of rivals who have suffered several years of NBC gloating under the self-congratulatory slogan "The Quality Shows" - until they lost "Friends" and gained "Joey" and became "The Desperation...
...usually Heather Locklear. Among the questions we'll look to answer this week: Will we be able to look forward to another season of "Arrested Development" and "The Office" next year? Will our grandmothers and ministers be able to look forward to another season of "Joan of Arcadia"? Will ABC have any flashy plans to fill the "Nightline" time slot after Ted Koppel leaves? Will any of the pundits moaning about Ted Koppel leaving "Nightline" actually have watched the show more than five times in the last year...
...previous season's, which featured the last year of Friends.) Trying to find some good news, Zucker was forced to cite the competition's success as a selling point, saying that this had been a great season for network TV, as exemplified by NBC's success Medium -and, um, ABC's Desperate Housewives and Fox's House...
...year, after health researchers announced that two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese, we published a 32-page special report on the problem. Also, TIME president Eileen Naughton, along with sciences editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt, organized a conference in Williamsburg, Va., to address the issue. Co-sponsored by ABC News and supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the summit called together 400 leaders in the medical, corporate and public-policy fields to unravel how Americans got themselves into such a fix and how to get out of it. Last week the American Diabetes Association named Naughton, along with...