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OUTSTANDING
COVERAGE OF A BREAKING NEWS STORY IN A REGULARLY NBC
Nightly News with Tom Brokaw NBC - In Their Own Words: Baghdad Battle
with Craig White NBC
photojournalist Craig White, at great personal risk, covered one of the
most intense firefights of the war in Iraq: a 12-hour battle between the
3rd Infantry Division and Saddam Hussein loyalists to secure a key intersection
in Baghdad. White’s coverage became the basis for this powerful "Own
Words" segment. CBS
News Sunday Morning CBS - Superpower In the first few months of 2003, correspondent Martha Teichner showed how the Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive war signaled a sea-change in America’s foreign affairs strategy. She also addressed the implications of this new doctrine, which brought millions of people around the world into the streets to protest America’s "war of aggression." This report sought to give viewers a global and historical perspective in order to help them better understand the daily headlines. CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING CBS - Heart of the Country
Dateline NBC NBC - The Long Way Home
ABC News Primetime Thursday Special ABC - Columbia Final Mission
ABC News Nightline ABC - War in Iraq: Fox 2/5
CBS
News 60 Minutes CBS - Weapons of Mass Destruction Correspondent
Christiane Amanpour shows that, while the biological weapons programs
of the former Soviet Union have been dismantled, the crumbling remnants
of those programs still pose a threat. Despite millions of dollars in
US funding, many facilities containing extremely hazardous strains of
bacteria are still without the most basic security. At a time when the
US administration was raising the alarm about Iraqi biological weapons,
this report shed light on the even greater potential threat posed by the
former Soviet Union. NOVA
PBS - Battle Of The X-Planes "Battle
of the X-Planes" tells the story of the competition between Boeing
and Lockheed to build the ultimate high-tech fighter, and to win the most
lucrative contract in military history. The film tells the gripping saga
of designers and pilots pushing the envelope against huge stakes, and
of a landmark attempt by the Pentagon to change its way of doing business. "Battle
of the X-Planes" exposes for the first time the entire process of
how new weapons are designed and acquired. Frontline
PBS - Burden of Innocence While
DNA testing and the subsequent exoneration of 100 longtime prisoners has
raised public awareness of the issue of wrongful conviction, in "Burden
of Innocence" producer Ofra Bikel documents what happens to the exonerated
after their release. The film reveals that, despite the state’s admission
of their innocence, most receive no compensation, and the stigma of being
an ex-con hinders their ability to get a job and re-enter society. WATERGATE
PLUS 30: SHADOW OF HISTORY PBS This
two-hour PBS special recounts the events that led to the resignation of
Richard Nixon. The filmmakers interview many of the principal figures
in the scandal, including Jeb Magruder who goes on record, for the first
time, to reveal that it was Nixon himself who ordered the illegal 1972
break-in of Democratic headquarters. The
American Experience PBS - The Center of the World (New York, Episode
8) The
final chapter of Ric Burns’ 14 ½-hour "New York: A Documentary Film",
tells the epic story of the World Trade Center. The towers opened to almost
universal derision in the early 1970’s, but by the dawn of the 21st century
they had become the undisputed icons of modern New York—and the new global
economy. That iconic status made them the ultimate target, leading to
their destruction in the hideous attack of September 11, 2001. Interviews
with historians, critics and writers put the unimaginable catastrophe
in a much-needed historical context. OUTSTANDING
INTERVIEW CBS
News 60 Minutes II CBS - The Man Who Knew This
interview with Greg Thielman, charged with analyzing the Iraqi weapons
threat for the State Department, reveals that Colin Powell had been warned
that intelligence did not support the claim that Iraq had a reconstituted
nuclear program—a key assertion in Powell’s speech before the UN. Powell
argued that aluminum tubes imported by Iraq were evidence that Iraq sought
to build weapons. Interviews with other weapons experts corroborate Thielman’s
claims and poke further holes in Powell’s case.
Cinemax
Reel Life CINEMAX - Spellbound In the
spring of 1999, eight American teens from around the country set out to
win the ultimate intellectual showdown: the National Spelling Bee. "Spellbound" follows
the dramatic journey of these courageous young competitors as they wrestle
with the daunting words and oversized dreams that define the National
Spelling Bee.
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