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If only Michael Jackson's trial had been held in Darfur

from NYTimes op-ed columnist "Nicholas D. Kristof"

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The real failure has been television's. According to monitoring by the Tyndall Report, ABC News had a total of 18 minutes of the Darfur genocide in its nightly newscasts all last year - and that turns out to be a credit to Peter Jennings. NBC had only 5 minutes of coverage all last year, and CBS only 3 minutes - about a minute of coverage for every 100,000 deaths. In contrast, Martha Stewart received 130 minutes of coverage by the three networks.

Posted by on July 27, 2005 6:14 PM |

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Jennings is the only guy that I can stomach on the networks, and they're still inexcusable. I wonder about the stats on Jim Lehrer of PBS (the only nightly news worth watching. Although the RNC may make short work of that). BBC is just unparalleled.

Posted by: brad | July 27, 2005 6:43 PM

pretty interesting about the mtvU stats, though.

so surprising (shameful) koppel/nightline have done so little (nothing)

Posted by: susana | July 27, 2005 7:33 PM

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