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...know sensationalism is back in style when Geraldo Rivera, network TV's original advocacy reporter, is riding high. After getting dumped from ABC's 20/20 in 1985, Rivera started an improbable comeback by opening Al Capone's long-sealed vault on live TV. The cupboard was bare, but ratings were huge, and Rivera followed up with melodramatic specials on such topics as drugs and death row, as well as with a daytime talk show. This week he returns to network TV with a two-hour special on NBC, Devil Worship: Exposing Satan's Underground. The sometimes graphic show dwells...
...Bush or the pundits who have already given him this election. While neither was looking, Mike Dukakis has been busy preparing for what may be the coup of the campaign. Barring any last minute glitches or changes of heart he will appear on a special 90 minute edition of ABC's Nightline tonight, alone. Bush refused ABC's offer to appear together with Dukakis. For Dukakis, who has come out of the second debate slipping fast in the polls, all of this could not have come at a better time...
...question after tonight is what George Bush's response will and should be. The simple fact that he declined ABC's offer already hurts him somewhat. He should, and will, wait for the reaction to Dukakis' performance. If Dukakis is seen as having botched things up, or as not having turned the tide, then Bush will be able to ignore the incident, do nothing, and ride his momentum to the White House...
...have no viable option besides submitting to a similar, though preferably shorter, appearance. Bush's "propensity to gaffe" should rule out a 90 minute one-on-one with any panel or news anchor. Appearing on a different network might allow Bush to save some face at the expense of ABC and Ted Koppel...
...DAVID (ABC, Oct. 25, 9 p.m. EDT). Bernadette Peters, starring in her first TV movie, plays a single mother whose six-year-old son is burned nearly to death by his father. Based, as usual, on a true story...