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...Jews ... the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world. Are you a Jew?" MEL GIBSON, to a police officer in Malibu, Calif., as he was being arrested for drunken driving AFTERMATH: Huge. Gibson apologized, offered to meet with Jewish leaders and checked into alcohol rehab. OUTRAGE FACTOR...
...exaggerate slightly. But our culture has experienced an almost psychotic outburst of -isms in the past year. Michael Richards and "nigger." Isaiah Washington and "faggot." Senator George Allen and "macaca." Mel Gibson and "f__ing Jews...
...Pilloried by a professor for his depiction of the Maya, Mel Gibson told her to "f___ off" before she was tossed from a campus Apocalypto screening. Sniffs blog site THE SUPERFICIAL: "Nice to see his anger management classes ... paid off." They did! The old Mel would have blamed the Maya for all the wars in the world. SCORE...
Looks like ABC made the right pick. Of course, network news has a complex ecology. Couric may have been a poor fit, CBS's changes too major or too minor. Gibson may be doing well because Couric dislodged NBC fans who then sampled him, or because many ABC affiliates have Oprah before the local news...
Regardless, after all the money and attention spent on Couric, it will be much harder for a network exec to justify trying to widen the larger news audience. The journalistic lesson of Gibson's success and Couric's fizzling is that you can do well in the ratings with simple, unflashy news, and that's fine. But the business lesson is that trying to find new viewers--in the face of generational change, technological rivals and changing work and family schedules--to replace dying ones is pointless. TV-news analyst Andrew Tyndall, publisher of the Tyndall Report website, told...