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...audience included a 60-member focus group convened for ABC's Good Morning America...
William Kennard is ticked off. In a scathing op-ed showcased in Tuesday's New York Times, the Federal Communications Commission chair rails against Fox and NBC's decision not to broadcast the first presidential debates. While CBS and ABC will show the 90-minute Bush-Gore slugfest in all its (potentially tedious) glory, the naughtier networks have bowed to the allure of ratings, offering a premiere of James Cameron's slinky "Dark Angel" and the debut game of the baseball playoffs...
...that choice implies a serious lack of maturity and responsibility: Tonight, we're offered two choices in equal parts: A handful of cavity-causing marshmallows from Fox and NBC or a fistful of vitamin-rich carrot sticks from CBS and ABC. Everyone knows the carrots are better for us, but since the marshmallows happen to be there...
...there are sparks of life once again. In 1991 LeBar and some underemployed colleagues performed a television exorcism on ABC's 20/20. So many viewers called in to request similar aid that the late John Cardinal O'Connor of New York appointed four archdiocesan exorcists. In an average year, they investigate some 350 cases and perform 10 to 15 exorcisms. Last year Chicago's Francis Cardinal George appointed the first official exorcist in his diocese's 160-year history. Several months earlier, the Vatican had revised the Rite of Exorcism. It eliminated physical descriptions of Satan and such honorifics...
...within the Bush campaign. That cued Austin to counter indignantly with its own unfounded accusation--that the Clinton-Gore Justice Department was leaking lies to sow chaos in the Bush campaign. In Goreland, they were sweating their own scandal. Gore officials suspended a mid-level aide who admitted to ABC News that he had boasted to a friend that the Veep's operation had a mole inside the Bush campaign. The 28-year-old aide insisted he had been joking, and no evidence has surfaced linking him to either the debate prep material or anything else funneled from Austin...