While CBS News continues measuring its success by how many AARP card carriers are watching its programming, NBC and ABC hold steady with the numbers most everyone else cares about: the 25-54-year-old demographic. But "hold steady" perhaps isn't the right phrase to use, as we just clocked the second week in a row that ABC's Charlie Gibson beat out NBC's Brian Williams in the demo advertisers froth over.
World News chief Jon Banner is staying modest – "I'm a little reluctant to call it a trend at two, but who knows" – while Nightly News daddy John Reiss remains uninterested:
"I don't make much of it. ," he says. "The demo race has always been very close, so it's no shock if ABC slips by us for a week or two. This is nothing, 50,000 viewers over two weeks. Now if ABC beat us in total viewers, I'd be hiding under my desk."
With NBC averaging about 9 million total viewers to ABC's 8.5 million, rest assured that all it'll take to get Reiss quivering beneath his desktop is the entire daytime audiences of Megan Mullally, Greg Behrendt, and Keith Ablow.
Terrorists are serving as role models for troubled youths who are in a dozen levels of categories of being disturbe in our country who see that the terrorists kill hundreds of people, kill themselves and the big mighty authority figures (the US Administration and their 'policemen', the troops) aren't able to do anything to them, they don't have to face consequences of their act. What Cho did at Virginia tech was an act of terrorism in the sense that it is just what is being carried out in Iraq. To show Cho's videos just feeds into these youth's needs and fantacies. The angry young man with two guns held out Wild West fashion shown over and over again simply glorifies him. It was a terrible mistake to do anything more than simply report that NBC had received a package from Cho containing information. The video should not have been shown, not even once. I am afraid there are now hundreds of youths who saw all the reporting and whose reaction will be "COOL ! " I am afraid we will now see an increase in Colombine and Virginia Tech. type situations