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• Merry Miller, Probably the World’s Worst Interviewer, Speaks Up

  Published: August 6, 2007, 2:46 am

  Tags: Video Clips, Funny, Abc World News Webcast

  She’s a one-time ABC News Now interviewer who became an Internet sensation when her first (and only!) interview with Holly Hunter turned out to be a disaster! Haven’t seen it? Here’s the YouTube clip: Now, Merry Miller tells us what it feels like to be notorious on the Net: Link [ABC World News

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• Dow Down 281 Points Big News Friday, Dow Up 287 Points Not So Newsworthy Monday

  Published: August 6, 2007, 8:52 pm

  Tags: Stock Market, Ann Curry, Brian Williams, Charles Gibson, Katie Couric, Abc World News, Cbs Evening News, Nbc Nightly News

  not counting unemployment news and a note about American Home Mortgage. Friday versus Monday comparisons for the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts, collected with the assistance of the MRC's Brad Wilmouth: ABC's World News, Friday August 3: CHARLES GIBSON, OPENING TEASER: Troubled homes: The stock market stumbles again today exposing fault

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• Prescription for Pot: Reporter Tries Medicinal Marijuana

  Published: August 8, 2007, 2:16 am

  Tags: Crime, Medicine, Abc World News Webcast

  From ABC World News webcast, here’s a story of San Francisco Chronicle reporter David Rubien who uses marijuana for medicinal purposes (no, he’s not deathly ill - he has repetitive strain injury): Link

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• World News' Compares 'Clean Coal' to Fat-Free Doughnuts'

  Published: August 8, 2007, 1:29 pm

  Tags: Business Coverage, David Kerley, Jeff Goodell, Abc, World News Tonight

  in a collapsed coal mine ABC World News Tonight with Charles Gibson took it the opportunity to kick the coal industry while it was down but this time in the name of global warming. The criticism of coal is that it's a dirty energy source. Although many of the pollutants are being scrubbed out it's still high in carbon, the

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• ABC's Gibson ignored Padilla's three-year detention without charges

  Published: August 17, 2007, 3:53 pm

  Tags: Charlie Gibson, Abc, Abc World News Tonight, National Security Foreign Policy, Terrorism

  the August 16 edition of ABC's World News, anchor Charles Gibson reported that "Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen from Chicago, was convicted today of supporting terrorism," without noting the controversial history surrounding Padilla's detention. Gibson reported that Padilla's case "symbolized the Bush administration's

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• Chasing the Donkey Kong Dream

  Published: August 26, 2007, 2:05 am

  Tags: Toy Amp Games, Abc World News Webcast

  mogul Billy Mitchell for the world record on the classic arcade game Donkey Kong. Donkey Kong without question is the hardest game. The average Donkey Kong game doesn’t last a minute. It’s absolute brutality…. Link [ABC World News Webcast] - Thanks

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• NY Times, networks ignored Sen. Craig's record on gay and lesbian issues

  Published: August 28, 2007, 6:35 pm

  Tags: Abc, Abc World News Tonight, Cbs, Cbs Evening News, Nbc, Nbc Nightly News, The New York Times, Civil Human Rights, Ethics, Government Elections, Lgbt Issues

  August 27 broadcasts of ABC's World News with Charles Gibson, NBC's Nightly News with Brian Williams, and the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. By contrast, an August 28 CNN.com article noted his votes on gay and lesbian issues and reported that "Craig's voting record has earned him top ratings from social

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• Despite hyping lower July death toll, network evening news programs silent on number of troop deaths this summer

  Published: August 29, 2007, 12:20 pm

  Tags: Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson, Katie Couric, Abc, Abc World News Tonight, Cbs, Cbs Evening News, Nbc, Nbc Nightly News, National Security Foreign Policy, War In Iraq

  networks' evening news programs -- ABC's World News with Charles Gibson, CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, and NBC's Nightly News with Brian Williams -- reported that the death toll for U.S. service members in Iraq was down in July. In particular, on World News, anchor Charles Gibson pointed to the lower July death toll

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• ABC World News Now anchor laughs during Owen Wilson story - VIDEO

  Published: September 4, 2007, 10:21 am

  Tags: Abc World News Now, Best Week Ever, Owen Wilson, Owenwilson, Ryan Owens, Taina Hernandez, Tainahernandez, Youtube Com

  under: News, Video, Web, CelebritiesHave you ever laughed at an inappropriate time? Maybe during a serious story someone is telling or a funeral or a speech by your boss? That's how Taina Hernandez feels. She was anchoring ABC World News Now with Ryan Owens the night that news broke that actor Owen Wilson tried to kill himself. The two

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• ABC's Kate Snow: 'Everyone Is Concerned' About 'Getting the Hell Out of Iraq'

  Published: September 4, 2007, 8:41 pm

  Tags: Campaign 2008, Iraq, Kate Snow, Abc World News

  about around the country, ABC's Kate Snow maintained Tuesday night, a contention she illustrated by citing one voter who recited to her a litany of liberal agenda topics: She's worried about health care, Social Security and...'getting the Hell out of Iraq.' Snow's conclusion from Des Moines followed a World News piece from Jake

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• On ABC, Keane Rebukes Zakaria Who Charged Army 'Presided Over' Ethnic Cleansing

  Published: September 5, 2007, 9:13 pm

  Tags: Iraq, Fareed Zakaria, Jack Keane, Abc World News

  Fareed Zakaria, Editor of Newsweek International, had asserted that the American Army has presided over the largest ethnic cleansing in the world since the Balkans. For World News, anchor Charles Gibson gathered Zakaria, Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations and Keane to assess the road ahead in Iraq. Zakaria

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• Osama bin Laden Cites ABC News Story in Denouncing U.S. Role in Iraq

  Published: September 7, 2007, 4:13 pm

  Tags: Iraq, Brian Ross, Osama Bin Laden, Abc World News

  their up against?" The ABCNews.com online version of the story. A search of The Guardian's site determined that ABC's "exclusive" is two months old, as the paper in May printed the same still shots ABC showed Monday night. The transcript of the report on the July 16 World News on ABC, [in which Specialist Michael Vassell, not

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• A Few Seconds on CBS and NBC, But Not ABC, on Capture of Democratic Donor Hsu

  Published: September 7, 2007, 8:54 pm

  Tags: Campaign 2008, Norman Hsu, Abc World News, Cbs Evening News, Nbc Nightly News

  and NBC, but not ABC, squeezed in brief updates Friday night about how Norman Hsu, the fugitive Hillary Clinton/Democratic candidate high dollar donor, failed to appear in a California court on Wednesday for a bail hearing and was captured Thursday night in Colorado. Both the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News, which aired full stories late

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• FCU with Bill Murray

  Published: September 11, 2007, 1:58 am

  Tags: Video Clips, Funny, Abc World News Webcast

  Here’s an ABC World News Webcast interview with Pete and Brian, the guys behind Funny or Die, a comedy website that features short comedy videos. The site started with a bang with the incredibly popular short comedy sketch The Landlord by Will Ferrell (viewed nearly 45 million times since it was put on!). Funny or Die just came out with a

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• Couric Spends More Time on 'Alex the Parrot' Than Hsu's Money

  Published: September 11, 2007, 10:23 pm

  Tags: Campaign 2008, Andrea Mitchell, Brian Williams, Charles Gibson, Hillary Clinton, John Yang, Katie Couric, Norman Hsu, Abc World News, Cbs Evening News, Good Morning America, Nbc Nightly News, The Early Show, Today Show

  broadcast network evening newscasts have each run one full story on Hsu while CBS and NBC, but not ABC, have aired two additional 20-second or so anchor-briefs. NBC Nightly News ran a full story on Thursday, August 30 (NB item) and ABC and CBS caught up the next night, Friday, August 31 (NB item). A week later, on Friday, September 7, CBS and

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