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What is Appropriate to Broadcast During Tragedy?

TV critic David Bianculli reviews the television news coverage of the WACO standoff and disaster, which sometimes featured harrowing interviews with the relatives of Branch Davidians while the cult's compound burned.

Commentary
04:18

Reality Spills Into a Dramatic Retelling of the Wanda Holloway Story

TV critic David Bianculli reviews the second TV movie about the Texas mother who wanted to secure her daughter's place on the cheer leading squad by conspiring to kill a rival student and her mother. This one is on HBO, called "The Positively True Adentures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader Murdering Mom."

Review
53:29

TV and Film Actor John Goodman

Goodman may be best known for his role as Dan Connor, Roseanne's husband on the hit TV show "Roseanne." He also has a successful film career, appearing in "Barton Fink," "The Babe," and "Born Yesterday."

Interview
23:06

TV Producer and Writer Tom Fontana on Telling Long Form Stories

Executive producer and writer, Tom Fontana. He was writer and producer for the TV show, "St. Elsewhere." He's currently executive producer, along with filmmaker Barry Levinson, of "Homicide: Life on the Street," a new cop drama on NBC. Reviewers say it goes beyond formula to offer a "more complex psychological portrait" of crime fighters and criminals.

Interview
22:33

Television Journalist Forrest Sawyer

Sawyer's new television news magazine show, Day One, premieres this Sunday night on ABC. He was recognized for his reporting during the Gulf War, when he split off from the pack and brought in some of the earliest footage of surrendering Iraqi soldiers and the American liberation of Kuwaiti. Sawyer also subs for Ted Koppel on Nightline.

Interview

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