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MYLFTOJT--makes you long for the O.J. trial. Signifies anything on Court TV and CNN's Burden of Proof. See also: WO!HCAL!--Watch out! Here comes a lawyer! Signifies a segment of a news show on which an expert attorney is about to explain a case. Suitable for other lawyers...
...buffs will remember Walter Cronkite's walk-on at the end of a Mary Tyler Moore Show episode more than two decades ago. With Contact, however, the journalistic community's sensitivity to the blurring of the lines between news and entertainment has caused some sober second thoughts. CNN president Tom Johnson said last week that in the future such appearances will probably be banned, bringing the cable network in line with the longtime policies...
...hear about the real-life journalists who played themselves in that movie about mankind's first encounter with extraterrestrials? No, I don't mean the gaggle of CNN anchors and correspondents who appear in Contact. I mean the three prominent newsmen who were featured in The Day the Earth Stood Still, the 1951 classic. In that film's opening moments, the descent of the flying saucer to Earth is breathlessly reported by NBC's H.V. Kaltenborn, radio commentator Elmer Davis and muckraker Drew Pearson. Then as now, the producers believed the presence of journalists would lend an air of authenticity...
...YORK: Cable TV's own War of the Roses ended today with a deal between TIME Warner Cable and Fox News that a relieved Rudy Giuliani called "a win-win situation for everyone involved." Fox News will get to take on CNN and MSNBC in New York City, the nation's premier media market, plus access to 65 percent of the TIME Warner systems. In return, Fox will eventually allow TIME Warner to broadcast its channels across the Fox international satellite television network, giving the media conglomerate a slice of some overseas markets it currently doesn't reach. Giuliani...
...docile and unresponsive that staff members began faxing reporters his deposition, as if to say, "This is what we were hoping he would say if he hadn't wimped out in front of the cameras." By the third day, so much time had been spent learning so little that CNN and MSNBC packed their cameras away, and there were plenty of empty seats in the spectators' gallery...