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...network news. TV reviewers were righteously appalled that ABC would dredge up the Manson horrors once again. Producers at all three networks were privately embarrassed at the confluence of crime stories. The warden at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Wisconsin was fed up; he banned future interviews for Dahmer, who has already talked to Inside Edition and ABC's Day One and had Sally Jessy Raphael next in line...
...that it deterred viewers. The Manson show drew a smashing 18.1 rating (meaning 18.1% of all U.S. TV homes were tuned in), which will probably land it in the weekly Top 10. The Dahmer episode of Dateline (which also included a teary Nancy Kerrigan interview) got a 15.3 rating, the show's highest ever. Undoubtedly, the crime wave will continue -- and network news producers will continue to grit their teeth and hope their old journalism- . school teachers aren't watching...
...sure, these shows are more objectionable in the mass than individually. Sawyer's interview with the Manson women, despite a couple of squishy moments ("The homecoming princess who sang in the church choir -- remember her?"), was relatively restrained and undeniably compelling. Stone Phillips was less circumspect with Dahmer ("Was it the killing that excited you, or is it what happened after the killing?") but didn't pander needlessly...
America's romance with real-life mass murder is going mainstream. Two years ago, serial-killer trading cards sparked national outrage. Now Jeffrey Dahmer and Charles Manson co-star with Diane Sawyer and Jane Pauley. Even eggheads have got the bug, thanks to a serial-killer cover on the New York Review of Books. Hey, there's gold in them thar psychos...
...tastefully packaged A Father's Story (William Morrow; $20), Lionel Dahmer spends 255 pages pondering the source of son Jeffrey's antisocial urges. Sample scapegoat: Mrs. Dahmer, because she disliked breast-feeding...