Not So Prime Time: Chasing the Trivial on American Television Book

	Team coverage of breaking news	9
	Poor Richard's almanac of horrors	12
	Obsession, not proportion, drives television news	16
	Her nose makes news	19
	Private lives and prying public	23
	First amendment, shmendment	26
	When ride-alongs take the public for a ride	29
	Foreign news? : it's all alien to the networks	32
	Let's hear it (again) for Old Glory	36
	A lox Named Fox	39
	If you're not for yourself, who will be for you?	43
	The blurred lines of today's "reality"	46
	Celebrating ficition as fact	49
	Paul goes home	53
	Propping up the Berlin Wall	56
	Out of the anchor chair, into the fray	60
	The Russian roulette of live news coverage	64
	To air is human, especially when it's live	68
	Live from Iraq, ready or not	71
	Publicity, thy name is Schwarzenegger	74
	The day the world shattered	77
	Ratting on Bill was her duty	83
	Wanna confess? : call Montel	86
	How was poor Jenny to know he was a ticking time bomb?	90
	Communing with nature by destroying it	94
	Transgressing all the way to the bank	98
	The art of rebounding	101
	When crummy acting and writing equal fun	105
	In "Ark," Noah plays Friars Club	109
	A tale of two miniseries	113
	The face that launched a thousand cliches	116
	Infomercials disguised as conventions	127
	Judging political parties by their stagecraft	131
	And now, for my next rehearsed ad lib...	135
	Do great moves make great presidents?	138
	When his presence is the message	142
	Our president : man or mannequin?	145
	Bush's image fails to fill the screen	148
	When no news is big news	151
	White meat or dark?	155
	D-Day and the resonance of war...now and then	158
	Looking to the past to see the present	162
	A new war, but the same old tube	166
	War as a sales tool	170
	Seeking symbolic moments in the tides of history	174
	Talking the talk before taking the walk	177
	Ultimate reality	181
	Timothy McVeigh : the closed circuit	185
	Let's bring camera's to death's door	188
	O.J. on trial	191
	The year of Simpson	194
	The case for cameras in courtrooms	198
	Give bin Laden his (televised) day in court	201
	One picture can be worth a thousand clips	205
	The death of Challenger recalled	209
	Columbia : freeze this frame	213
	High noon in television's high court	216
	TV keeps the dreams - and dross - alive	220
	Big man, big laughs, big legacy	227
	Excellence, from "Marty" to the mafia	231
	I confess! : I did watch Perry Mason!	234
	A toast for Kuralt and one for the road	238
	Contemplating Cosell	242
	The Life of a National Hero Has Its Perils	246
	A "masterpiece theatre" of pomp and puff	250
	When the coverage is as senseless as the tragedy	253