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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Catfish who wrote (12127)	4/5/1999 11:46:00 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 13994

Let's invade Serbia!....NOT!!! Message 8722833

To: Catfish who wrote (12127)	4/5/1999 11:52:00 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 13994

Drudge on the "media" copout MIA: DAN, PETER AND TOM ROUGH IT OUT FROM NEW YORK Could America's million dollar anchormen -- Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and Dan Rather -- be afraid of Yugoslavia? Wars and disasters -- natural or otherwise -- are TV magnets for The Big 3. But this time around, the network anchors are missing in action, so reports Gail Shister in Tuesday editions of the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. Shister pins NBC hotshot Brokaw to the wall. Why isn't Brokaw, author of the book THE GREATEST GENERATION, personally going to Yugoslavia to cover the war? While refusing to discuss NBC strategy, Brokaw tells Shister that this war "is very difficult to cover." "It's in a complex part of the world. These are not familiar players to the American people. From a military and political point of view, the administration only wants to say so much. It's not black and white." Does he want to be there? How will NBC decide? "I'm not going to give that away. I'm in a hotly competitive environment here. I'm not going to share with Peter, Dan or CNN, for that matter, how we make those decisions." Besides, broadcasters "ought not to get in the business of group therapy, taking you [TV columnists, we assume] through our decision-making. We have to reserve some privilege." Fearless Dan Rather, who has looked into the eyes of hurricanes, is ready to go. Sort of. CBS News' vice president for news coverage, Marcy McGinnis, tells Shister that if there was a "huge reason" to send Rather, such as nabbing an interview with a key player, he'd be on the next plane. The story "never stops being in play. Dan Rather can go anywhere at any time to do any story," says McGinnis. Fearless Peter Jennings, author of THE CENTURY, staying away from "Camp Diarrhea?" "We're getting reports from major European capitals, the U.N., Brussels, Yugoslavia," says an ABC spokeswoman. "As managing editor, Jennings is doing his job by pulling together all the information from New York."