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...least of the show's problems is its title. Friday Night Lights was inspired by the 2004 movie and, before that, the best-selling book by journalist H.G. Bissinger - both of the same name and both highly praised - and producers wanted to keep the title. Nor could the network air the series on Fridays, which would have made things easy for viewers. But NBC marketers joke that they considered a new promotional slogan when they recently switched the show to Wednesdays: "Friday Night Lights - now one day closer to Friday...
...channel France 24 launched last month, French President Jacques Chirac cooed that it would help France "maintain and diffuse its view of the world." After a month on the air, that conceit still engenders sneers. "Let's face it," says one prominent French government critic, "you're either a journalist or a functionary of the foreign minister, not both." But the ambition of running parallel editorial operations in English and French on a $112 million budget annual budget - about a fifth of CNN's - earns points at the very least for sheer panache. Can France really make waves...
...Maybe so, but France 24 had a controversial and politically charged birth. Less than three months before its December launch, respected journalist Ulysse Gosset stepped down as the channel's managing director for news after clashing with the station's board chairman, Alain de Pouzilhac, whose previous career was in advertising rather than news. Rumors of political maneuverings have been so thick that late last month an editorial in Le Monde accused the channel's bosses of "schemings unworthy of a banana republic...
...subjugation of East Timor; jungle commander leading a rebellion against an occupation army; reluctant President heading a new nation still wracked by violence and poverty. Now, at 60, Gusm?o is the subject of a documentary about his struggles to make East Timor independent and viable. Directed by Singaporean broadcast journalist Grace Phan, A Hero's Journey is a tale of forgiveness and reconciliation, and recently won Amnesty International's Movies that Matter Award. TIME's Jason Tedjasukmana talked with Gusm?o about both the real and reel worlds...
DIED. Frank Tremaine, 92, Honolulu-based journalist for the United Press who filed the first account of the Pearl Harbor attack; in Savannah, Ga. On Dec. 7, 1941, the young reporter was awakened in his bungalow by the falling bombs. After confirming with sources over the phone, he filed this sentence, which the White House scooped by minutes in its official statement: "Flash--Pearl Harbor under aerial attack. Tremaine...