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From: jim@sivax.UUCP (Jim Boman)
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Subject: Re: Television coverage
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Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 10:01:56 EST
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To the author of this dribble:

> You are forgetting one thing.  It was the callous news networks that were
> responsible for showing the crowd's bemoaning the loss of the shuttle over and
> over and over and over ......, not NASA.  At first it was news and then it was
> a money maker for the networks.  This is just another case of irresponsible
> journalism exercised so ofter by the American news media.  I am ashamed of them.
> 
> This reminds me of the nighttime soap opera that was on years ago called:     
> America Held Hostage, Day N.  They call it Nightline now.

Please explain WHY you think that showing the crowd at the launch was an
example of "irresponsible" journalism, and please explain what it is about
the reportage of unfortunate events that makes the news media "callous".
And, if I may be permitted to get my digs in, it is thinking of people
who hold your views that would prefer that TV and the press suppress 
information at their discretion, and only show us, perhaps, what the 
government would like us to see? Why don't you go to Canada or the
Soviet Union if you'd like to have your information controlled.