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...broadsides against liberal bias, says the suspect documents in the CBS report "made it through all their checkpoints. Why is that? Because they wanted it to be true." The media élite were even willing to endanger lives for Kerry, if you believe Drudge's insinuation last week that ABC News held back a purported al-Qaeda tape threatening an attack bigger than 9/11 for fear of its effect on the election (ABC aired the tape the next night...
...that anybody believes the crime franchises are worthless. "Believe me," says ABC prime-time entertainment president Stephen McPherson, "we'd love to have CSI. But you've got to play the cards you're dealt, so to speak, and that's what we did." Not surprisingly, CBS chairman Leslie Moonves agrees that the procedural is not dead. "Good shows work," he says. "Bad shows don't. I don't care what type of shows they are." It's unclear whether many will watch ABC's new hits in reruns or syndication, two reasons procedurals are such moneymakers. And ABC...
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...have had reality TV eat into their mortgage payments--the CSI-ization of the networks has been trouble. David E. Kelley established himself with character dramas like Picket Fences and The Practice. The year before CSI's debut he had five shows on the networks. Today he has one--ABC's Boston Legal--and a reality show about lawyers in the works for NBC. Last year his family drama The Brotherhood of Poland, N.H. was blown off the air by Law & Order after just four weeks. "Ten or 15 years ago," he says, "a show like Poland would have...
...April 18, 2003, troops from the 101st Airborne Division stopped at al-Qaqaa on their way to Baghdad and entered some of the secured bunkers with bolt cutters, as documented by a camera crew from an ABC affiliate in Minneapolis, Minn. The footage, which came to light after the White House sought to cast doubt on the story last week, indicated that some of the sealed weaponry was still present a month after the war began. The 101st did not resecure the bunkers when they left al-Qaqaa, nor did they destroy the ordnance, in part because their orders were...