Friday's Night Line will be just Koppel reading the names of military

[MSgt213]

killed in Iraq.

Friday's Nightline simply Koppel reading names of soldiers killed in Iraq (with their photos)


posted by srhodes on April 27, 2004 02:32 PM
From Nightline’s 4-27 daily email (tonight’s show is on the Cheney Supreme Court case):

Now I want to tell you about this Friday’s broadcast. We’re going to do something different, something that we think is important. Friday night, we will show you the pictures, and Ted will read the names, of the men and women from the armed forces who have been killed in combat in Iraq. That’s it. That will be the whole broadcast. Nightline has been reporting on the casualties under the heading of “Line of Duty.”

But we realized that we seemed to just be giving numbers. So many killed in this incident, so many more in that attack. Whether you agree with the war or not, these men and women are serving, are putting their lives on the line, in our names. We think it is important to remember that those who have paid the ultimate price all have faces, and names, and loved ones. We thought about doing this on Memorial Day, but that’s a time when most media outlets do stories about the military, and they are generally lost in the holiday crush of picnics and all. We didn’t want this broadcast to get lost. Honestly, I don’t know if people will watch this for thirty seconds, or ten minutes, or at all. That’s not the point. We think this is important. These men and women have earned nothing less.


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[Book Lover]

1. Great idea and about time (nm)

[Christ was Socialist]

2. He is one of the last in the dying breed of anchors<nt>

[DoBotherMe]

3. During the Viet Nam

war our local newspaper would list the names of the fallen warriors in our paper. Although it is a respectful remembrance, I'll tell you truthfully it is very painful. It will make you cry. D ; )

[stepnw1f]

4. If It Does Make You or Me Cry

then at least we can call ourselves HUMAN.

[Kikosexy2]

6. You know come...

Memorial Day the Chimp will spew his usual bonehead rhetoric "These soldiers fought for a noble cause". "They're fighting to protect America". "They're fighting the war on terra' and we will win!" and blah, blah, blah...oh, the hypocrisy! Disgusting!

[belladonna]

5. Everybody who can do it should tune in

I'm so glad to see that at least some of the media are waking up and beginning to realize just how wrong this war is.

[revcarol]

7. We remembered every single one with a luminario(farolito.)

A NAME, HOMETOWN, DATE OF DEATH, AND PLACE OF DEATH for each one on the paper bag. We made a silent pilgrimage around the pathways of the park where we had placed the luminarios.Some people were looking for the names of friends and relatives.

AND MASSED LUMINARIOS with pictures from Voices in the Wilderness people, for the dead Iraqis.

[rocktivity]

8. Has Koppel been putting the pedal to the metal lately, or what?

He just finished lambasting Bush for banning the Dover coffin photos while permitting a flag-draped stretcher to be shown in one of his campaign commericals!



:headbang:
rocknation

[DrWeird]

9. I bet the freepers are pissed.

Damn liberal media! These casualities are accepatable!! War is hell! Everybody new their'd be this many dead!

[BOSSHOG]

10. I've had to bury Sailors

I will watch Friday night and I will cry my eyes out.

[Must_B_Free]

11. Great for all those watching ABC at 11:45 PM on Friday night

Which I'm sure is a lot of people, huh?