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| Preface | |
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| ABC News: How News Causes Blues | |
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| Diane Sawyer: When Words Fail her | |
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| ABC Anchor Fill-In Impaired by Learning Problem | |
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| ABC's David Muir: A Man of Learning | |
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| ABC's Muir Seems to Think Using Tonight Works Muiracles | |
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| ABC Anchor Tampers with Clock and Calendar | |
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| Scripts that Need an Editor Who Edits | |
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| When Now is not Now on ABC's World News | |
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| World News Scripts that Need Work | |
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| NBC News: The Tonightly News | |
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| The Overnight Life of Brain | |
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| Brian Williams: Nightly Problems | |
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| Brian Williams: Lack of Copy Editor Causes Problems | |
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| Brian Williams Trips on the Learning Curve | |
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| How Brian Williams Beats the Clock | |
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| Network Newscasts Mess with the Clock Big-Time | |
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| Brian Williams: History-Maker | |
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| Network Newswriting that's Snoozewriting | |
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| When a hit is Amiss | |
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| Network Script Gets a Hard Look-and Crumples | |
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| Network Anchor Makes Time Fly at Warp Speed | |
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| Former NBC Writer Slams Brian Williams's Scripts | |
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| NBC's Pete Williams Catches a Mistake: Mine | |
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| CBS News: Mistakes Happen-and Happening Now | |
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| Scott Pelley: Wearing Two Hats can Cause Headaches | |
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| Anchors', Reporters' use of Confirmed Questionable | |
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| 60 Minutes Story about Singer Hits False Note | |
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| Alas, Poor Couric | |
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| Couric: When Exclusive News is not Exclusive-and not Even News | |
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| Couric: Time Twisting, Time Wasting and Other Problems | |
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| Producer Says my Article about Evening News had Errors | |
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| How CBS's First Didn't Last | |
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| When a Network Script Should be Scrapped | |
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| How Two Network Newsmen Turned Day into Night | |
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| Hard Look Finds Weak Script Fading to Blah | |
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| 60 Keeps on Ticking, but its Writing Takes a Licking | |
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| CNN: Trying to Keep them Honest | |
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| Autopsy of an Anderson Cooper Script | |
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| Cooper's 'Keeping them Honest' Raises Questions | |
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| CNN: 'Keeping them Honest' | |
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| CNN: Blitzer Cries Wolf | |
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| When Hype Turns to Tripe | |
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| When Breaking News Needs a Brake | |
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| CNN Anchor Fobs Off Old News as New | |
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| CNN: When bad Things Happen to a Sad Story | |
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| CNN Anchor Likes Astrologer, Astrology and Astrologizing | |
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| CNN: Out in the Open | |
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| Two-timing, Incorrect, Unhealthy News | |
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| Wanted: Network News People Who can Spell | |
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| Network News Often Gives us a bad Time | |
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| How Newscasts Fiddle with the Time and Day | |
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| Network Mistakes Leave Big Tips | |
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| Network Scripts that Need Work | |
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| Health News that's not Healthful | |
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| Networks Mangle and Strangle Language | |
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| Tips, Tests and Quizzes | |
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| The Eyes have it: a Broadcast Writing Clich� | |
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| Overnight Needs Oversight | |
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| Test your Newswriting I.Q. Against Networkers' I.Q | |
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| Write this Way, Please | |
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| Are you Ready for the Big Time, Say, 60 Minutes? | |
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| 60 Minutes Quiz | |
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| For want of a Nail-and an Editor | |
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| The Unexamined Script is not Worth Using | |
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| Index | |