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...THIRTYSOMETHING (ABC...
ENTERTAINERS '91: THE TOP 20 OF THE YEAR (ABC, Dec. 26, 8 p.m. EST). Those old rivals, the broadcast networks and cable, seem to be getting pretty cozy. This year-end special, with host Dennis Miller, has been produced for ABC by E! Entertainment Television. If you can't beat...
...basic principle of journalism -- to give the public all the available facts -- in order to protect her wish for privacy and a chance to live a normal life after the case was closed. So when the woman who accused William Kennedy Smith of rape shed her anonymity on ABC's PrimeTime Live last week, the nation's press corps could have been excused a muted groan. What was the point of all that self-censoring if she was going to reveal herself on a TV talk show scarcely a week later...
...Patricia Bowman -- the name virtually every news organization now felt free to use -- told ABC's Diane Sawyer that she came forward so that other rape victims would not be scared off by her experiences. "I'm not a blue blob. I'm a person," she said. "I have nothing to be ashamed of." According to her lawyer, David Roth, Bowman turned down offers of up to $500,000 to tell her story, choosing Sawyer because of her "impeccable reputation for integrity." PrimeTime paid her nothing, but she told Sawyer she would not rule out taking money for future interviews...
...justified in feeling disconcerted. "I think we did the right thing ((to hide her identity))," said Tom Johnson, president of CNN. "But I do feel awkward about it now." Johnson and other news executives said her about-face will not change their attitude toward identifying rape victims. Explained an ABC News spokesperson: "Our policy is not to reveal the names of rape victims unless they choose. If at any time during the process they choose to go public, then we would name them." One news organization that may feel vindicated: NBC, the only TV network that consistently broadcast Bowman...