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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...place but swears it was accidental. He and his supporters argue that Lanh's account shouldn't be believed, because she was a communist revolutionary married to a Viet Cong soldier, and because her stories have been offered to journalists while Vietnamese government officials sat nearby. Lanh evidently told CBS her husband was Viet Cong, but, again, changed her story and denied to TIME that he was. Government officials' presence at interviews conducted by foreign journalists is standard procedure in Vietnam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Hell Visited the Village | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...CBS sure does load their thoroughbred down. So many Bud Lights. So many Aztecs. So many commercials, and so many empty montages. Tune in next week for "Back From the Outback," to mop up what CBS can of May sweeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tina Was Tantalizing, the Show Was Not | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...hear reports a few weeks ago that actress Kate Hudson had been sought to get a tryout for "Survivor 3." Stranger still that CBS's Les Moonves actually floated the idea of a celebrity edition of "Survivor," a notion that the show's zillionaire producer Mark Burnett seemed to stand behind at the "Survivor 2" post-finale conference call with the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Reality TV (Just Maybe) Saved the Writers from Themselves | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...civilization would absolutely watch, it would also effectively be the end of the series. You could never go back to real people once you've gone the "Battle of the Network Stars" route. What's more, given real stars' tight schedules and accustomedness to pampering, the danger is CBS would either have to water down the competition into a bogus vacation, or turn it into a "Hollywood Squares" full of the Bruce Vilanches of the showbiz world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Reality TV (Just Maybe) Saved the Writers from Themselves | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...exclude the media - another profession that requires little to zero credentials? The CBS Evening News is the lowest rated news broadcast and can't be doing too well financially. Why not auction off the anchor chair for one night a week to some multi-millionaire who wishes he were Dan Rather? In fact, it couldn't be more anxious-making for viewers than watching old Dan himself. Maybe that's how they should find Dan's successor - give it to the highest bidder; that might even make Viacom happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dennis Tito Shoulda Been Our Space Tourist | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

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