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I. NEWS ON A HIGH WIRE: CLOWNS WITHOUT SAFETY NETS Team Coverage of Breaking News 9 Poor Richard's Almanac of Horrors 12 Obsession, Not Proportion, Drives Television News 16 Her Nose Makes News 19 Private Lives and Public Prying 23 First Amendment, Shmendment 26 When Ride-alongs Take the Public for a Ride 29 Foreign News? It's All Alien to the Networks 32 Let's Hear It (Again) for Old Glory 36 A Lox Named Fox 39 If You're Not for Yourself, Who Will Be for You? 43 The Blurred Lines of Today's "Reality" 46 Celebrating Fiction as Fact 49 Paul Goes Home 53 Propping Up the Berlin Wall 56 Out of the Anchor Chair, into the Fray 60 The Russian Roulette of Live News Coverage 64 To Air Is Human, Especially When It's Live 68 Live from Iraq, Ready or Not 71 Publicity, Thy Name Is Schwarzenegger 74 The Day the World Shattered 77 II. TRASH, YOU ROCK ... SOMETIMES Ratting on Bill Was Her Duty 83 Wanna Confess? Call Montel 86 How Was Poor Jenny to Know He Was a Ticking Time Bomb? 90 Communing with Nature by Destroying It 94 Transgressing All the Way to the Bank 98 The Art of Rebounding 101 When Crummy Acting and Writing Equal Fun 105 In "Ark," Noah Plays Friars Club 109 A Tale of Two Miniseries 113 The Face That Launched a Thousand Cliches 116 III. THE POLS, PREZ, PROPS OF WAR, AND OTHER PHENOMENA: READY FOR THEIR CLOSE-UPS? Infomercials Disguised as Conventions 127 Judging Political Parties by Their Stagecraft 131 And Now, for My Next Rehearsed Ad Lib ... 135 Do Great Moves Make Great Presidents? 138 When His Presence Is the Message 142 Our President: Man or Mannequin? 145 Bush's Image Fails to Fill the Screen 148 When No News Is Big News 151 White Meat or Dark? 155 D-Day and the Resonance of War . . Now and Then 158 Looking to the Past to See the Present 162 A New War, but the Same Old Tube 166 War as a Sales Tool 170 Seeking Symbolic Moments in the Tides of History 174 Talking the Talk Before Taking the Walk 177 Ultimate Reality 181 Timothy McVeigh: The Closed Circuit 185 Let's Bring Cameras to Death's Door 188 0. J. on Trial 191 The Year of Simpson 194 The Case for Cameras in Courtrooms 198 Give bin Laden His (Televised) Day in Court 201 One Picture Can Be Worth a Thousand Clips 205 The Death of Challenger Recalled 209 Columbia: Freeze This Frame 213 High Noon in Television's High Court 216 TV Keeps the Dreams-and Dross-Alive 220 IV. BURYING THE HYPE: TRUE HEROES AND DEITIES UNMASKED Big Man, Big Laughs, Big Legacy 227 Excellence, from "Marty" to the Mafia 231 I Confess! I Did Watch Perry Mason! 234 A Toast for Kuralt and One for the Road 238 Contemplating Cosell 242 The Life of a National Hero Has Its Perils 246 A "Masterpiece Theatre" of Pomp and Puff 250 When the Coverage Is as Senseless as the Tragedy 253 Index 257Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Television broadcasting United States, Television programs United States