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Fallows is particularly brutal about the corrupting effect of journalists' taking huge fees (which they seek to keep secret) for speaking to corporate and special-interest groups, something most politicians are rightly barred from doing. Cokie Roberts of ABC and her husband Steve of U.S. News & World Report are politely zapped as exemplars of this buckraking game. But they are not the best examples of what is most insidious about the process. Far worse are those journalists whose eagerness to get such lucrative gigs causes them to scramble to get on the type of TV shoutfests that prize glib, contentious...
...midseason comedies making their debuts next week try to be something different. Both NBC's Third Rock from the Sun (Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m., est) and ABC's Champs (Tuesdays, 9:30 p.m.) feature characters well into their 40s who don't sip lattes or sport cute haircuts. Unfortunately, both shows evince a fondness for tackling gender-war issues with a Norman Lear-like heavy hand...
...MURDER ONE PILOT (ABC) The story line later grew convoluted and the diversionary subplots tiresome, but the first episode of Steven Bochco's serial drama piqued flawlessly. A murdered teenager; a rich, smarmy suspect; a crafty defense attorney--it paled only next to that other courtroom drama in L.A. 3 THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY (ABC) Remember an age of rock so innocent that young stars actually enjoyed being famous? The grand old geezers--Paul, George, Ringo--recalled the genial hysteria of Beatlemania in a three-night show of rare clips and rockin' good music. Nostalgia nirvana...
...PRINCESS DIANA INTERVIEW (ABC) With a composed fragility, the Princess of Wales yanked the royal family into the age of public confession. Her disclosures--that her marriage was a shambles, that she had suffered from bulimia--weren't shocking. But her doe-eye candor was. Some found it calculated, but most viewers opened their hearts to the world's most famous victim...
...after five years on the air, Channel One News has filled an important niche. The program now reaches 8 million students, or 40% of all teenagers in the country. That is roughly five times the number of teens who watch newscasts on ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN combined. And though the mix of MTV-style graphics, rock music and on-air pop quizzes is more sprightly than anything Peter Jennings or Tom Brokaw delivers, the newscast is hardly dumbed down...