Celebrities

Legal Eavesdropping

Back when I worked at 680 News I was adamantly against playing 911 tapes of distress calls on the air.  The only exceptions were those calls from September 11th, released long after the fact, when describing the scenes as they unfolded, first hand, seemed newsworthy.  But I thought a call from a frantic person describing the death of a loved one was exploitive and disgusting, and I still think that way. …

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TV Drama

Have you been following the failed experiment of The Jay Leno Show at 10 pm on NBC?  The program has performed so poorly that network affiliates have demanded it be taken out of prime time.  It was named the Worst Show of the Year by several prominent entertainment writers and it really is a suckfest.  But the network is now planning to punish its late-night hosts to appease Jay.  …

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