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ABC Musta Taken it up the Shorts in Ads
The only national advertisers in NightLineâs presentation was SBC and Dodge Ram. Almost all of the advertisers were local advertisers.The program opened without the musical intro, and then a commentary from Koppel about the âcontroversy swirlingâ around ABCâs decision to air the naming of the dead. Typical to the current, albeit sad, state of American journalism the naming of the dead was apparently not intended as a tribute, but paraphrasing Koppel, to show that the deaths of a few has a burden for all of us. Commenting as what passes for objectivity these days, Tedro is right, however, lest any of us are taking these deaths or the presence of relatives of our fellow citizens who are still fighting lightly, as Koppel seems to imply, or as he perhaps would prefer. And you gotta imply that in order to maintain some sort of moral superiority over the rest of us idiots. That is a national journalist stock in trade. The naming of those fallen was not particularly well done because it failed miserably to state without any equivocation why all these people were willing to sacrifice their lives to uphold the ideal of liberty, inasmuch as some of us will do what we can to ensure the safety of our troops to victory over this tyranny that attacked us on 911. A point of personal privilidge: Tedro: Would it have klilled you to admit on national TV you admire the sacrifice not only of those who have died but of those who are still on the lines still dealing with the threat we all face as a nation, still willing to fight even though some loud mouths who have found themseleves at the top of the journalistic food chain believe the sacrifices have not been enough, who find it necessary to further endanger troops by opposing the mission whiole still trying to convince us they âsupport the troopsâ? Would a little expression of love of country have permentantly ruined your liberal credentials? Posted by: badanov 2004-05-01 |
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