From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   	Hollywood Reporter is speculating that if the Writers Strike   
   doesn't clear up by the new year it could have the side effect of   
   getting the networks to do prime-time news coverage of the presidential   
   campaigns.  NBC already has a whole hour dedicated to the 5 February   
   string of twenty primaries, and other networks might even do more than   
   drop in occasional reports in the midst of entertainment programming:   
      
   http://www.reuters.com/article/televisionNews/idUSN0620420320071210?sp=true   
      
   	While I certainly would rather have normal programming, and   
   don't like the thought of a strike going on for four months, it does   
   seem to me that network news coverage of a presidential election, if   
   it were carried out by the grown-ups rather than the hollering idiots   
   that run cable news, would be a good thing for the nation.   
      
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   								Joseph Nebus   
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