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...national television networks recognized the visual possibilities of the Wounded Knee story immediately; NBC, ABC and CBS all had camera crews holed up inside the embattled village. When the Justice Department ruled that Wounded Knee was off limits to the press, all three networks were permitted to remain inside, and a pool man was allowed to bring out film footage...
...staff members groaned unconvincingly about how much money it cost them to stay in Wounded Knee. "We've flown 60 Lear jets in and out of here since this thing began," one NBC cameraman complained during the third week of the takeover. "We're going broke...
...course, was nowhere near broke. Ten days latter, it sent correspondent Douglas Kiker to the reservation, probably in anticipation of a possible bust. But no bust materialized, and Kiker delivered a report on "NBC Nightly News" that emphasized that Wounded Knee had indeed become somewhat boring...
Wilson did, however, throw up his roadblock two weeks ago to prevent the press from entering Wounded Knee. The same day, the TV networks, concerned about the tense situation created by the shooting of a U.S. marshal, vacated the village for the first time since the occupation began...
After that withdrawal, the reports coming out of the village were unreliable. Most of the daily newspapers parroted the government line, or described obliquely the dissension among the militants. But no one knew in the occupation's sixth week what was going on inside Wounded Knee, and the Federal government probably wanted to keep it that...