This make anyone else mad?

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ABC Wins Interview With Jessica Lynch


By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer

NEW YORK - ABC News' Diane Sawyer was chosen Monday for the first television news interview with Jessica Lynch, considered the year's most highly sought-after broadcast "get."


Sawyer's interview with the former prisoner of war will air in prime time on Nov. 11, Veteran's Day and the day Lynch's book is scheduled to be published.


It's also in the middle of the November ratings "sweeps," when ratings are watched closely to set ad rates.


Many of the network news stars, including Sawyer, ABC News colleague Barbara Walters and NBC's Katie Couric, had sought the interview — even though there's some question about what Lynch remembers about her capture and rescue in Iraq (news - web sites) this spring.


"I've been doing this for 20 years and I've never seen anything like this," said Paul Bogaards, publicity director for Lynch's publisher, Alfred A. Knopf. "It was like blood sport, the competition for this story."


CBS News was embarrassed in June when it was revealed the Viacom-owned network had hinted at publishing and MTV deals in its pitch for a Lynch interview. The network had no comment about Lynch's decision.


ABC's news division made the pitch for the interview, with no entertainment shows involved, ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider said.


ABC's ability to draw big ratings for newsmaking interviews tied to book projects — with Sen. Hillary Clinton (news - web sites) and actors Michael J. Fox (news) and Christopher Reeve (news), for example — played a part in granting Sawyer the exclusive, Bogaards said.


Lynch, from West Virginia, also liked Sawyer's Kentucky background and "her familiarity with the routine and pace of life in a small town," he said.


Knopf has set up a complete media strategy for Lynch that also includes an interview with Couric for "Today" to air starting Nov. 12. That's a hollow victory since Sawyer, host of "Good Morning America," is likely to begin airing excerpts of her talk in the morning a day earlier.


Lynch also will make an appearance on the CBS "Late Show" with David Letterman (news - Y! TV) on Nov 14. Then she'll appear on CNN's "Larry King Live" on Nov. 17 with her family and Rick Bragg, who is writing her authorized biography.


It's just kind of odd. She joins the military because she wants a free house (you know what I mean- she joined for the perks), gets caught in some overblown scheme, and is brought back a "hero", in which she didn't do a god damn thing. I'm not saying I don't appreciate her becoming a soldier and all, but they're going to have interviews, TV specials, and maybe even books and movies on her, but what about the other 300 soldiers who died so far. Can you remember any of their names?

[Supafly345]

Soldiers are heros. Is she any more of a hero, fuck no. In fact, she is the one that got captured, seems that one's who didn't are better at their jobs (being heros).

[Ooner]

Soldiers are NOT necessarily heroes. Rambo was a hero. Jessica Lynch was not. I get really tired of hearing the word "hero" applied to so many people, it just makes the word mean less for real heroes.

Like Rambo.

[AChimp]

WHY NO MOVIE FOR THE BLACK COOK?

[Supafly345]

Originally Posted by Ooner

Soldiers are NOT necessarily heroes. Rambo was a hero. Jessica Lynch was not. I get really tired of hearing the word "hero" applied to so many people, it just makes the word mean less for real heroes.

Like Rambo.

I am not a hero. You are not a hero. It doesn't mean we are less important, it just doesn't mean we do heroic acts.
Kids with cancer are not heros.
90% of the people who died on 911 were not heros.
A man who swims the entire pacific ocean is not a hero.
Heart surgeons are heros.
Fire fighters are heros.
George Patton was a hero.
Rambo doesn't exist. Except maybe in a cool poster on my wall.

[Perndog]

You can debate forever, it's just a matter of your definition. Dictionaries define heroes as specifically as "someone distinguished for exceptional courage and nobility" or as broadly as "someone who fights for a cause." People are heroes in the eyes of others, and it is for everyone to determine who is a hero to them.

(Incidentally, I agree that kids dying of cancer and people randomly dying in any situation should definitely not be considered heroes.)

[AChimp]

Incidentally, I might add, another thing that makes me mad is the lack of hot Asian women surrounding me.

[Supafly345]

Originally Posted by Perndog

You can debate forever, it's just a matter of your definition. Dictionaries define heroes as specifically as "someone distinguished for exceptional courage and nobility" or as broadly as "someone who fights for a cause." People are heroes in the eyes of others, and it is for everyone to determine who is a hero to them.

(Incidentally, I agree that kids dying of cancer and people randomly dying in any situation should definitely not be considered heroes.)

I like it when you say things like this. Do it more often.

[kahljorn]

I'm a hero because I lay in bed and wait for someone to heal me. I'm also a hero because I sit in jail waiting for someone to free me. Oh yea, and I'm ALSO a hero because a building fell on me, i mean shit. I got like three heroic ros there, plus that time i fell off the curb and I had to wait for the garbage man to come and help me on my feet, and when I lost my wallet.. and that time I locked myself out of my car.

I'm so damn heroic.

[Skulhedface]

I'd be mad if I cared.

A) Jessica Lynch is old news.

B) I know she doesn't qualify as a hero, that's good enough for me. As said before, Rambo is a hero. Jessica Lynch just managed to escape. Next thing ya know, the cast of Hogan's Heroes will be called heroes

C) The word "hero" is too overused. It's lost all it's nobility.

[FS]

Who wrote her book?

[kahljorn]

It's God's word, of course!(copyright Rock House Publishing 2003)

[mburbank]

I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU FUCKERS ARE TALKING ABOUT THIS SHIT WHEN BEN AND J-LO HAVE BROKEN UP! THE SAME CAN BE SAID FOR THE SOCALLED ABC 'NEWS'!



PRIORITIES!

[kellychaos]

I don't know that I'd apply the word hero to Ms. Lynch but, regardless of her original motives, she DID complete all her training, she DID get deployed overseas and she DID serve her country. That DOES deserve a certain amount of respect, doesn't it ... maybe not "hero status" ... but some measure of respect. As for putting the term "hero" in the context of a Rambo "shoot them all and let God sort them out", that's BS. The army is about team work and everyone doing their jobs to make it all work. Some people have combat arms positions, others do not. She was a transportation specialist, for Christ's sake! Give her a break. Besides this is all media hype and not necessarily her doing. What would YOU do in her position?

[Zhukov]

If I was in her position I would have surrendered straight away, instead of fighting to the last bullet.

Then again, if I ever joined the current US army I'd probably be executed.

One of my biggest fears was waking up in some US army baracks with joker and cowboy.

People are heroes in the eyes of others, and it is for everyone to determine who is a hero to them.

That's the ticket.

[Randomnimity]

I would be angry, 'cept that this is kinda what I expect from the TV new media. They use "heroes" not to denote any specific righteous deed or superhuman act of courage but in order to better draw in the ratings.

Any meaningful use of the word hero ( as well as many similar words) has since been murdered (by overuse), mutilated (by bending of their original meanings), and cannibalized (since words are the basis of television, but have been relegated to simply being food for ratings) by the media.

As for Lynch herself, congrats on the probably ghost-written book, and enjoy your 15-minutes of fame, 'cause in the end you'll probably end up just as obscure as the rest of us. Or, even worse, as a You Don't Know Jack Volume 23 question (assuming they still make those).

[mburbank]

DID NONE OF YOU HEAR ME?!?

BEN AND J-LO BROKE UP!!!!!!!!!

[Zhukov]

I thought the marriage was just postponed because of media interference, you're not serious are you?


Randomnimity: No doubt "right behind you" is already taken