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To: Alighieri who wrote (330889)	3/30/2007 10:28:00 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1575517

Comedian George "How does 'World News with Charles Gibson' do it?" Mark Lasswell asks in the Wall Street Journal. "For the fifth time in seven weeks, the ABC newscast last week drew the biggest audience on average (8.4 million) of the three network evening-news shows. Marveling at the newscast's ascendancy after two years of turmoil in ABC's anchor ranks, media observers tend to dwell on the unexpected old-shoe appeal of Mr. Gibson. But there may be another explanation. Facing up to the reality that, alas, many folks like to get their news from 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,' ABC News has added comedy to the mix," said Mr. Lasswell, the Journal's deputy books editor. "How else to explain those hilarious skits when Chief Washington Correspondent George Stephanopoulos reports on the brouhaha over the Justice Department's firing of eight U.S. attorneys while the proverbial elephant in the room is lurking just off-camera? "Mr. Stephanopoulos was the Clinton White House communications director in 1993 when the Justice Department cleaned its slate of all 93 U.S. attorneys, and he was central to the administration's finessing of the episode — just the sort of insider experience, presumably, that prompted ABC News to hire Mr. Stephanopoulos fresh out of the White House in 1996." Mr. Gibson and Mr. Stephanopoulos somehow "manage not to crack up as they rake over the latest sinister developments in the fired-prosecutors 'scandal' without acknowledging that one of the newsmen knows a good bit more than he lets on about how these things work." Mr. Lasswell said that Mr. Stephanopoulos torpedoed Attorney General Janet Reno's plan to allow U.S. attorneys in the midst of significant investigations to remain in office. Mr. Stephanopoulos also reportedly tried to get fired U.S. Attorney Jay Stephens fired again when Mr. Stephens was hired by the Resolution Trust Corp. to investigate claims stemming from the collapse of Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan, which was connected to Hillary Rodham Clinton's former law firm in Arkansas. Of Mr. Stephanopoulos' recent TV analyses, Mr. Lasswell remarked: "There hasn't been this much stone-faced comedy in circulation since Buster Keaton's heyday."