Re: CBS News can't win....

["Bill O'Neill" <billo@erols.com>]

>Ok now I'm speaking as a parent of a 6 year old son.
>
>What possible service was rendered by breaking in to Mickey's Christmas
>Carol to say bombing in Iraq was still going on....they were not reporting
>the first strike, simply an update.

As the (protective) father of 7&6 year olds, the thought came to me that a
crawl line to "heads up" parents of a "special report break in follows...."
would have been swell.  But the kids did think it was a commercial, so, as
instructed to do when spots air, my daughter muted the volume (and they
assumed it was an annoying Play Station spot.

>Now when you are running a one time special like Mickey Christmas Carol
>you have very young children watching that are not normally expose to news
>reports like this.

True, but my kids do know that it was going on, an unfortunate result of
grown ups -<bust it - politics alert>

>Now the networks wonder why their viewer share keeps dropping.....my wife
>vows NEVER to watch a childern's special on broadcast TV again.

Try tape delay!

You sound like a good Dad.

Bill O'Neill

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