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...Which left the cable networks for most of the night covering the Rage Against the Machine concert outside the Staples Center ("Does that qualify as a mosh pit?" asked Fox's Brit Hume) and trolling for celebrities to fill the space between Michael Beschloss segments. All but PBS, which wouldn't air Melissa Etheridge singing "America the Beautiful" but did air a slick DNC video about a welfare mother who opened her own business - that, apparently, does not count as a packaged showbiz event...
...praise God for Gore's sake, the big networks passed on it. "What is a successful tonight for the Democrats?" Jim Lehrer asked Mark Shields, a touch poetically, on the "NewsHour." A successful tonight for the Democrats would happen if nobody watched, except on PBS...
...people in this building, and how many of the people who cover this convention," gushed CNN's Jeff Greenfield, "were first drawn to it by John F. Kennedy?" When Haynes Johnson mentioned that Schlossberg is 42 - the same age as JFK when he was nominated in this very city! - PBS's panel of presidential historians gasped as if Jack's ghost had just pulled up and taken a swig of Michael Beschloss's coffee...
...return that call fast. "I disagree with your premise," Powell said. "It wasn't, 'Here's Colin! Here's Condi [Condoleeza Rice, Bush's black female national security expert]! Now vote Republican.'" Monday night, Powell had been abuzz with postspeech spin, bounding to interviews with anchors at CNN, BET, PBS and ending up on Larry King Live at midnight. The next day he made the rounds of the network morning shows. He concedes he couldn't say all he wanted (he had to cut his speech to meet that 11 p.m. deadline) but saw his moment in the spotlight...
...show is a thousand times realer, factually and emotionally, than Big Brother and Dawson's Creek put together. That's partly because Cutler, who produced The War Room and directed A Perfect Candidate, let the kids film their own "video diaries" and partly because the show's MTV-meets-PBS kineticism captures the confused rush of adolescent emotion--stoked by love, self-discovery, coming out, breaking away--without exaggerating or trivializing...