BUT NEVER EVER THE OTHER WAY AROUND !!
The Christian Science Monitor - In true NewsNight flair the entire program was caucasian including every commercial. Thank God Israelis are pale otherwise we won't have made it either.
The Washington Post
The Guardian
Stars and Stripes
Daily News
Rocky Mountain News
Tonight was the height of nerve beyond any other I ever witnessed before. After a three minute segment well done by Aaron regarding Israel was a a five minute segment about a man who would see his role in life to conquer the world and bring it to Catholicism.
Another fanatic like Bush.
The Domino's King, Tom Monahan, profitted from the people of this country with plans to change their lives forver making religion monolithic and Catholic. He is going to do this from COMMAND CENTRAL, "Ave Maria" somewhere in the continental USA. At the center of this community of 11 thousand homes will be a 'chapel' designed very similarly to The Air Force Academy chapel. No military interest by Mr. Monahan of course, but, only a peaceful God fearing community where by a man could see his lover during lunch, go to 24 hour confession afterwards and be pure of spirit in time for dinner with his spouse.
The community is to have all the freedom they like except freedom of expression outside what 'the chapel of all chapels' councils as appropriate Catholic behavior regardless of what the Pope might say. No freedom of speech as one might say something not of Catholicism. Absolutely no freedom of theater as "Vagina Monologues" is censored and banned.
So, somewhere in the continental USA, Tom Monahan will build a monolithic society where merchants have to pass snuff while the residents live lives of deprivation, sacrifice and reflection 24 hours a day contemplating how and when they will conquer the world with funding provided by Faith Based Dollars knowing more about Catholicism and what is good for Catholics more than the Pope does. Do I detect another Jim Baker?
The definition of "Anchor" never included so much journalism. Aaron now does at least one segment if not two or more of the segments of the news hour. BESIDES, organizing the program with pertinent other segments. What a strategy to make Aaron exclusive to Ms. von Zwieten estranging him from any personal life. Do I dare say 'concentation camp' hostile working environment?
Why not?
The date was September 16, 2002.
HOST: Good evening again, I'm Aaron Brown. Well, can you believe it, it's been 25 years since Elvis died. OK. Full disclosure. In our control room right now, the entire staff is shrieking in pain that I actually said those words. They have been saying it all week with eyes rolling and sarcasm dripping. This has been Elvis week not just at CNN, but all over the place. Elvis impersonators. Elvis drag queens. The Elvis is really alive, folks, including the doctor, I love this guy, who claims to have been treating Elvis for the past five years -- and we wonder was Medicare being billed on this. So we at NEWSNGHIT, in our typical fashion, declared this program to be a vast Elvis-free zone. Nothing against Elvis, of course. We sort of like the guy. We just hate hype. And maybe that's why we have been thinking this week about those famous curmudgeons over at CBS News who back on August 16, 1977 faced one of the toughest editorial decisions we could ever imagine. Lead the broadcast that day with Elvis dying, or Panama Canal treaty negotiations. You got Elvis on one side; you got the Panama Canal negotiations on the other. They chose the Panama Canal; six minutes worth, according to one account. The other guys led with Elvis. Now, in their defense, there was a lot going on with the Panama Canal negotiations. Can you believe, after all, it has been 25 years since the Panama treaty negotiations. Oh, by the way, CBS is still in third place. We would not make that mistake. We begin the whip with baseball. OK, it's not the most important thing, but it's the best story of the day. Keith Olestra has it. Keith, a headline, please.
KEITH OLBERMANN, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Two weeks from now, Major League Baseball will either be fresh from a near miss, amazed that the players union set a strike deadline but didn't actually go out on strike, or it will be in day one of the ninth seasonal interruption in the last 30 years. The ball players declare their strike date; it will be August 30, Ted Williams' birthday, Aaron.
BROWN: I wouldn't touch that at all. On to CNN's Jim Boulden. When last we spoke, he was in Prague, with a rising river in the background. He's in Dresden, in Germany tonight, and we need a headline, Jim.
JIM BOULDEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Aaron, 33,000 residents of Dresden are in shelters early this morning. And the airport is a makeshift hospital. And thousands of volunteers are still fanning out throughout the city with sandbags. They try to keep the Elbe River from rising even further, but I'm sorry to say, it is continuing to rise, Aaron.
BROWN: And back with you at the top of the program tonight. Also, we have baseball and floods and lots of other things as well. In moments like this, aside is the game. The game of baseball still touches us in the way it once did. We'll talk tonight with filmmaker Ken Burns, a fan of the game, who's made a bit of a living making movies about things he loves. The Bush administration talking tough on Iraq and the president did again today. We'll hear from some other voices talking caution, including a key adviser to the last Bush administration, and other members of the president's current party, the Republicans. He didn't have a past party, did he? And we'll close out the week with a smile. Love and marriage Indian style all in one television program. All for real and all for keeps. That and Elvis as only NEWSNIGHT could possibly remember the king, in the hour ahead. I know it's coming. We begin it all in Germany. The flooding in Dresden and something a 75-year-old woman there said to a reporter today. She said we pulled so many bricks out of the ruins, so that we could reuse them, so we could rebuild the city. She was talking about 1945. And now she says it feels like '45 all over again. We go back to CNN's Jim Boulden.
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BOULDEN (voice-over): More and more sandbags to try and hold back the ever rising Elbe River. Pumps to remove what water has already flooded in. Thousands of volunteers and emergency personnel race through Dresden to fight against the historic surge of the river.
MIRIAM BATOW, STUDENT: It's my town. It's so, so many -- how you say? Important buildings and very nice buildings, and so we just need to protect it, you know.
BOULDEN: Hospitals and homes evacuated. Some 33,000 people needing to find shelter. The city's old square and baroque buildings were largely destroyed in World War II bombings raids; many only restored in the past 20 years after being neglected through most of the communist area. Dresden's mayor says $100 million will be needed to rebuild again. But that's only a fraction of the $1 billion estimate to repair other areas of the Saxony region. The German government says international aid will be needed, as the high water continues its relentless move northward through Germany.
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BOULDEN: Now, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has said that there will be a mini summit on Sunday. He's going to meet with the leaders of Slovakia and the Czech Republic, where much of that water has come earlier this week. They're going to get together with the European Union and start talking money. Obviously, a lot of these buildings are going to have to be restored again after spending all that money, and they are going to be looking for international loans. They are going to be looking for money from the European Union, and even before they start the clean-up, they are going to start talking about the money, Aaron.
BROWN: Well, always so. This is in the part of Germany that was East Germany. It's not a particularly rich part of the country. Is there money in the country to be had for the work?
BOULDEN: Well, of course, a lot of these areas are dependent on tourism. Some people call this the Venice of the east. You can look along the river; you see some beautiful buildings that have been restored in the last 20 years. Next to it is a very ugly communist- era building. So it's sort of the Venice of the east, but it is getting tourism into this area, but of course it's a desperate situation for them, because this is the last thing they need to get some money in here. But of course, there's election next month here in Germany, and Gerhard Schroeder has said he will give $400 million for that. I suspect he might have to give a bit more if he wants to win the election.
BROWN: Jim, thank you for your work. Jim Boulden in Dresden. Difficult place. We move on to baseball.
