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Rock n' Roll Doggie
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Possible demise of "Nightline"???
Has anyone been keeping up with this story? And to think that I just discovered this show recently. It's an interesting message ABC sends when it is willing to dump a well-respected, in-depth news program for late-night comedy.
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War Child
Join Date: Sep 2000
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Yeah Sula, I've been following this story with a lot of interest. I don't get the opportunity to watch this show very often, but whenever I do, I am seriously impressed by it for the fact that it is the only news show that I've come across (apart from BBC news America and PBS) that covers the news without sensationalism and actually report the news from an unbiased point of view. I stopped watching the news after Sept. 11 for two reasons. First, it made me sick, but second, I cannot stand that fact that these news organizations hype shit up for the sake of a story. I wanted to punch the fucking tv every time I saw one of those "Terror in NYC" "War on Terrorism" logo's come across the screen like some bad Arnold Shwartzenneger (sp?) movie. I was watching the tv the other night and there was one of those little 15 second ads for the news and it was hyping something crazy like "Is your water causing cancer...this man says it will" or some crap like that.
__________________Blech....I wash my hands of the whole thing. I was a journalism minor in college and decided pretty quick that it was NOT what I wanted to do. The media doesn't control this country, $$$, marketers and advertisers in search of the next gold demographic and quick buck do. Americans ARE ignorent, we really are. I sit around and listen to college students saying crap like "Let's just nuke the middle east dumb rag heads" and it's no wonder people hate us. Not only are we arrogent, we're stupid. There's no way we can understand what they feel, we don't even know what we're about. It's really pathetic... *end of rant* Yes, it will be a sad day if Ted Koppel and Nightline get the boot. I love Dave, but come on...even if Ted is funny lookin' ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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New Yorker
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ive actually been encouraged by the knowledge of the other journalism students ive met this week...aussies rock tho
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I'm a chauvinist leprechaun
Join Date: Oct 2000
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It's funny that Letterman is considering moving to a network for one reason being 'To Be Treated Better', when The network he is moving to is completely shitting upon Ted Koppel and Bill Maher (Which I will say was appropriate)...
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War Child
Join Date: Sep 2000
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Yeah, it is funny that Letterman is saying that considering that was the same thing he said when he left NBC...
He'll never recover from not getting the Tonight Show when Johnny Carson retired. I think he really just assumed it would be handed to him and he was really shaken when NBC dropped his ass. |
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I'm a chauvinist leprechaun
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Ah Yes.. The Latest news... CBS is looking at Howard Stern to possibly replace David Letterman.. Hahahah.. Can you imagine, It think that'd be the funniest thing.. Anything that brings more Beetlejuice to the Table, I'm all for it!
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War Child
Join Date: Jan 2001
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"Touched by an Angel" followed by "The Howard Stern Show"...hmmmm.....
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War Child
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hey touched by an angel sound naughty. perfect pre-stern show IMO.
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Rock n' Roll Doggie
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I saw a report on this on MSNBC late last night. It said that ABC wants to get more "carry-over" viewers. Basically what channel people go to sleep watching is the channel they wake up watching. Leno's show is #1 in Late-Night and the Today show is #1 in mornings. So they think if they get Lettermen at night their morning show will compete with the Today show (which it probably won't since the Today show is great *bias* ).
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War Child
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We need David Letterman, we need Jay Leno, and WE definitely need Ted Koppel's Nightline! Maybe if Letterman goes to ABC CBS could pick up Nightline! I know, not likely...
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Rock n' Roll Doggie
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The thing is, this isn't a matter of either/or. Letterman is not going off the air. If he doesn't go over to ABC, he'll be sticking around with CBS. The thing is that Koppel may get cut regardless. And I think that's just sad.
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Letterman announced today that he is staying on at CBS, however, what ABC will do with their late night programming is still in question, they still could make a pitch for Conan O'Brian (though it's highly unlikely, it looks like damage control time for ABC with Ted Koppel)
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