STEPHANOPOULOS!!! No "In Memorium" !?!?!?!

[David Ippolito]

Just finished watching "This Week" with George Stephanopoulis.

EVERY week near the end of the program, they would recount notable people who had passed away, as well the number of that week's military war dead. then, they would post a graphic with the names that the Pentagon had released.

A few weeks ago, they changed that segment by only announcing the released names.

I'm a singer/songwriter in New York City, and I have a rather large following across the country. This week, I am going to ask my audience to write letters and make phone calls this to ABC and Stephanoupolis to find out WHY they are now joining the rest of the MSM in ignoring the nightmare of a WAR this nation started.

Join me.

--David Ippolito

[Mass]

1. Write to your TV station

In Boston we had a memoriam with 27 names of soldiers killed in Iraq (number and names). This is not ABC's doing. It looks like censorship to me.

[cascadiance]

6. Check to see if your affiliate is owned by Sinclair Broadcasting...

That might explain it. It wouldn't be the first time they've tried to censor ABC's network broadcasting. Recall how they instructed their affiliates to not air Kopel's Nightline segment that was essentially doing the same thing.

[Mass]

7. Channel 5 Boston is not - That may explain why we had the segment

[heidiho]

12. But those 25 were the names RELEASED is what I'm angry about also

Usually he says "25 American soldiers were killed in Iraq this week, the Pentagon has released 15 of those names" and then lists them.

This time, he said "The Pentagon has released the names of 25 soldiers killed this week"

He's not saying how many were KILLED, only how many names were released! There is always a discrepancy in those numbers.

So, how many WERE killed last week?

[LizW]

2. I wondered when this would happen

ABC is obsessed with what "is news". To them, the war is not news anymore. They have practically no one over there covering it, and the stuff coming from the Pentagon is boring and doesn't do anything for their ratings.

It was just a matter of time before they axed the In Memorium segment.

I agree we should write to ABC. They have a skewed view of what the public is interested in, and if we don't write, this will continue.

[Mass]

3. Not ABC's doing - In Boston, we had In Memorium.

[babylonsister]

4. Perhaps because the numbers are becoming

too large? We lost many soldiers in the past week.

[DemBones DemBones]

5. Looks like a survey of where In Memoriam was shown and where it

was not would be interesting -- maybe start another thread to make people aware of the local stations choosing to eliminate it?

[Auntie Bush]

8. Well they don't have time to bother even mentioning the war dead...

it takes to much time from the really important things like Michael Jackson's trial. Besides they don't want to turn the public off on a war that's making Halliburton and George el al rich! Anyway, all those that were killed are just cannon fodder and poor kids that wouldn't have amounted to much anyway...no big loss...not worth the time to mention them. Don't want to bore the public with such repeated information when they could be listening to some happy news like more right wing propaganda.

Main stream Media is greedy!

[MADem]

9. Can you provide a link or email address to the affiliate in question?

Also, I would urge anyone to ask this question in a "neutral" fashion. Don't ascribe motives, don't assume the worst (even though we may suspect, with good reason, that they are fiddling with reality). It will be interesting to see what sort of answer we get back....

[cascadiance]

10. I'd go to the following web sites and send emails...

They would be interested to see if censorship is going on, and have the resources to go after them should this be the case.

www.stopsinclair.com grew into www.startchange.org. They used to have a Sinclair affiliate list on that site, but I haven't located that just checking over there now. But go to them at:

http://www.startchange.org/

and the other sites that also share interest with them at stopping media censorship:

http://www.mediamatters.org/
http://www.stopfakenews.org/
http://sinclairaction.com/

[NYCGirl]

11. I'm in NYC, and they DID show the "In Memoriam" segment at :49 after

the hour. (I still have the show on my TiVo, so I'm sure of this.) They did:

Joe Grant, 96, Disney artist
Lloyd Cutler, 87, Attorney
and 25 Soldiers and Marines

They ended the show with the segment on Nancy Pelosi. So you might have missed "In Memoriam"?

[TahitiNut]

13. Detroit: The "In Memorium" segment was sandwiched between commercials.

The segment only lasted about 30 seconds, and would easily be overridden by a local station collecting ad revenues.

[NYCGirl]

14. I just timed it here (NYC) at 3 minutes. NT

[TahitiNut]

16. It seemed far shorter to me, but I'll take your word for it.

I wasn't paying much attention since I mentally "tune out" during commercials and focus on DU.

[NYCGirl]

17. No prob. Timed it from the TiVo. I just Fast Forward through ads. NT

[TahitiNut]

18. (Hmmm...) I suppose I should join the TiVo generation. (Arghh!)

I was a "leading edge" technology adopter in my 20's and 30's ... and now find myself becoming more of a Luddite. I detest cellphones, can't comprehend spending thousands for HDTV, but love CD's and DVD's (screw IPods and Blackberry's). Nonetheless, my aversion to both commerical TV and having my time scheduled by network programmers will eventually lead me to become TiVo'd.

[NYCGirl]

19. It's the best thing since sliced bread. Really.

I TiVo all the Sunday morning political shows (with the "season pass" option, which means you program it only once), and then watch them when I want to.

[beaconess]

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