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In article <141lesINNdpi@betty.cs.widener.edu> brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes:
>If you haven't, I strongly recommend getting a copy of today's
>Inquirer and read "Selling `Dirty Politics' to Leno" on page A13.
>It's by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of Penn's Annenberg School; she
>recently appeared on the Tonight Show.  You'll really enjoy it.

Kathleen Jamieson became Dean at Annenberg about two years ago.  She has re-
focused the school to be oriented more towards news-reporting, like most other
Schools of Communication.  An unfortunate side-effect has been the shutting-down
of the Annenberg Script archive, which was a repository of original scripts
from television shows from the '60s, '70s and '80s (our Television Heritage!).
Annenberg floats on a pool of cash that was given it by the eponymous founder
of TV Guide.  He also decreed that TV Guide should give Penn the scripts it
uses to write capsule reviews (and you thought they got those blurbs from the
producers -- talk about misplaced journalistic integrity!).  These, then, were
the actual show scripts that might have been used by such TV legends as
Farah Fawcett, Don Knotts, and Pam Dawber!  (No Star Hustler scripts, as far
as I know -- sorry Jack Dorkheimer fans!).  I saw a scripts from "The Dukes of
Hazzard."  The first page was the cast of characters.  The second page was
the cast of vehicles -- longer than the first!  I also saw the script from 
the episode of CPO Sharkey (Don Rickles' series) entitled "Punk Rock Sharkey".
The show featured a performance by The Dickies, and the script included the
song lyrics (as though the Dickies would work from it.  Odd).

This ramble is not meant to disparage Dr. Jamieson's fine work in journalism.
It's just meant to point out one of the costs associated with it.
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