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NAME Patricia Sabga (NBC) CALL HER "Satellite Dish" CREDENTIALS Covered 9/11 from New York City. Ashleigh Banfield is seriously jealous RATING: [3 microphones...
...years ago. News was all set to run on tnt in January 2001 but was scuttled by new management after the merger that created AOL Time Warner (which owns TNT and TIME). This year Bravo bought all 13 episodes--at a deep discount. But despite being shot before 9/11, Ashleigh Banfield's dye job, Greta Van Susteren's eye job and Paula Zahn's "zipper" ad, News doesn't play like old news. Like E.R., whose frenzied pace it emulates, News nails the jargon and the adrenaline rush of its subject. And the series pays admirable attention to the dangers...
...Rockefeller Center party crew to throw up tents, as waiters continually swept away a half-inch of rainwater with brooms. (Insert metaphor for the networks vainlly trying to sweep away the tide of cable and audience fragmentation here.) Still it didn't stop your valiant reporter from rubbernecking at Ashleigh Banfield (who held court around a teensy drinks table - or was it Tina Fey?) and swiping the beef carpaccio with both fists from the passed hors d'oeuvres trays...
...covering a war in Afghanistan is brutal? Try battling the Wall Street Journal's Tunku Varadarajan. In a column on female war correspondents, CNN's CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR is "second-rate," parachuting into war zones "kitted out in flak jackets"; MSNBC's ASHLEIGH BANFIELD is undergoing "a complex learning process" on air, starring in the story by dyeing her blond hair brown. "Despicable!" Banfield says, comparing talk of her looks and $400 titanium-framed glasses to how the Taliban treats Afghan women. At least when Dan Rather wrapped himself in mufti to report from Afghanistan, he only had to live down...
...CNBC program, I can't stay anchored to my desk any longer," he said. "I hope to be able to report all aspects of our nation's do-or-die fight against terror." Which leads some to question his objectivity--though not his patriotism. One plus: Unlike MSNBC colleague Ashleigh Banfield, he's already a brunet...