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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gmccon who wrote (42694)	4/17/1999 3:28:00 PM
From: Les H	Respond to of 67261

DOWD BLASTS HILLARY: YOU'RE NO JACKIE O! Fresh from her Pulitzer prize win, NY TIMES hotshot Maureen Dowd on Sunday blasts First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton over her plans to write a book about "White House Style." "It was better when Mrs. Clinton was channeling Eleanor Roosevelt," writes Dowd. "Eleanor was a more natural soulmate for her than Martha Stewart." Hillary Clinton's new book AN INVITATION TO THE WHITE will be released this Fall from SIMON & SCHUSTER. Dowd rules that this first lady is not chic, like Jackie Kennedy. Dowd: "It's insulting that Mrs. Clinton is using her waning days in power to chirp about matching the color of the roses to the rim of the china. After the anguished year of Monica, you'd think the Clintons would spend quiet time on true things." Dowd even pokes fun at Hillary's cooking! "The book will include more than 30 recipes... but we know that her life's interest is not Gingered Pheasant Consomme and Blue Cheese Fritters." Dowd roars that Hillary's most "dog-eared recipes" are "Bill in a Stew, Seared Husband, Grilled Staffers and Glazed USA." Bold and hysterical, Dowd's post-Pulitzer power. X X X X X HOW CNN LEARNED TO LOVE THE BOMB, 'NIGHTLINE' TOO There are reports tonight out of Yugoslavia of complete carnage and chaos in the wake of the continued NATO bombing. But hold on to your TIME WARNER stock, CNN again issues a press release announcing that its TV ratings are booming with the bombings. On the ground smoldering skeletons and a woman cut in half... a man's head lying in a field with the wind blowing his brown hair against the grass, and corpses lying in a squalid hospital nearby: details from the horror scene of the refugee caravan bombing reported by London's INDEPENDENT newspaper on Friday, coming only days after the passenger train bombing. But to every story there's a silver lining. And down in Atlanta at CNN headquarters, it's been press release after press release during the Crises in Kosovo. "In primetime, the network posted a 1.1 rating... an increase of 22%," rejoiced CNN's David Bittler and Alison Rudnick in a press release that moved on AP EXPRESS wires midweek. "The network series of four primetime Special Reports on the crisis in Yugoslavia posted a 1.2 rating and delivered 895,000 households." Up. Bittler and Rudnick point out increase by increase, daypart by daypart. LATE EDITION airing Sunday on CNN "experienced increases of 100%" during last week's NATO runs. CROSSFIRE lifts 38% over a year ago; INSIDE POLITICS surged 80%. The practice of issuing vaunting press releases celebrating increased viewership during wartime is not a CNN exclusive. On Thursday, ABC NEWS, in a press release, played up a NIGHTLINE win for last week's 90-minute broadcast BAD OPTIONS: THE CRISIS IN KOSOVO, even breaking the numbers down into Madison Avenue-friendly demographics. Koppel's Kosovo coverage kicked Conan! ABC NEWS declares in a press release: In adults 25-54, Koppel pulled 2,210,000 over NBC's 2,150,000. Lettermankilborn trailed with 1,890,000.