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...saying he didn't want to go back to his father in Cuba--a statement that could have been coached. But Armando Gutierrez, the family spokesman and a veteran political operator with a heavy touch of Joe McCarthy in him, angrily accused ABC of reneging on a promise to broadcast that very statement. The next morning, the network aired it. And by week's end another family spokesman said Elian "expresses fear about being with his father. He's afraid he will be punished." Now, who could have put that idea in his head...
...otherwise, requires a lot of faith. You have to believe that conditions for life (liquid water, mild temperatures, protection from lethal radiation) are not unique to Earth; that under the right circumstances, life can arise fairly easily; and that if it does reach a level advanced enough to broadcast its presence, it won't destroy itself in a nuclear war or an environmental meltdown before firing off Earth-bound communiques...
Smith said he had planned to have the keynote speech simultaneously broadcast to groups of Ivy Corps volunteers at all Ivy League colleges, but the plan fell through. He said he hopes to do a telecast next year...
Then there is TV, where baseball is dying. NBC paid $400 million for baseball-broadcast rights through 2000. Yet in 1997, the World Series was such a ratings bust that the network's Don Ohlmeyer publicly prayed for a four-game sweep. He wanted baseball--the World Series!--off the air so he could get his viewers back...
...finds it particularly objectionable when professional football players huddle on the field for a semi-private pregame prayer. But when a similar prayer is broadcast from the bleachers of a public high school football game, fallout becomes more likely - even in football-mad, religiously conservative Texas. Witness the events of 1995 in Santa Fe, Texas: The families of two students at the local high school filed suit against the district, claiming the pregame prayers blaring out of the school's public address system violated the First Amendment by "creating a pervasive religious atmosphere." Those families are not feeling especially popular...