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...York Observer, the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) plans to begin a 24-hour broadcast service, dedicated to reporting the Iraq news it deems important. The broadcast will be live and unfiltered--unfiltered, at least, by meddlesome journalists. Dorrance Smith, a CPA media adviser and a former ABC News producer, told the Observer that the network's model was the wartime broadcasts from Centcom headquarters, which frustrated journalists with their lack of specifics but convinced audiences that we were blowing up a lot of stuff real good. The hope is that local TV stations will use the feed, allowing the government...
...could better complete the twins’ package, further attaching another symbol and brand to their tween identity, than Harvard itself? Imagine viewers’ reactions as the girls move their stuff into their Grays middle suite during first-year move-in day 2005. It would make a great ABC special...
...regret anything I've done, but I'm tired of the reaction they get." That Esquire shoot, it turns out, was a nightmare. (She claims the magazine gave her photo approval and then ran pictures without her blessing - something Esquire denies.) Even worse were those "retarded" wardrobe suggestions ABC made for the promo spots for Britney Spears: In the Zone, her Nov. 17 U.S. network special, which she'll be taping just hours from now. "It was really obnoxious," she says with a snort. "They wanted me to take my clothes off. It was all about my body, you know...
...ABC news anchor and correspondent Bob Woodruff, on the other hand, said that he thought the tactic of embedded reporting during the recent Iraq war allowed reporters comparatively more freedom...
Rules' producers can take inspiration from The Practice (ABC, Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.). Last spring, with the legal drama--once a top-20 hit--bleeding viewers, writer-producer David E. Kelley fired four of its stars--Dylan McDermott, Kelli Williams, Lara Flynn Boyle and Lisa Gay Hamilton (who were negotiating raises)--and started afresh. Kelley blames himself for the decline; over seven seasons, the show was mired in melodrama. "It was difficult to juxtapose a personal story line and explore relationships," he says, "while trying to show a murder and the search for a missing head...