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From: emil@rochester.UUCP (Emil Rainero)
Newsgroups: net.space,net.columbia
Subject: Re: Television coverage
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Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 22:19:50 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  3 22:19:50 1986
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In article <15019@rochester.UUCP> ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank) writes:
>> Let's remember one thing before everybody else starts flaming about
>> the callous news coverage by the networks (ie, the "elation-to-tears"
>> of the crowd, etc, etc, ad nauseum).

>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.

I quote from USA Today, Wed. January 29
	
	"As the networks pre-empted soap operas and game shows, they 
	also dropped commercials for the afternoon, costing collectively 
	up to $1.7 million an hour."

Give us a break, Ray.
-- 

	Emil Rainero
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