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For anyone interested, it looks like the Richmond Times Dispatch took on their own defense for extensive coverage of Elliott.

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11,363 posted on 05/07/2006 6:27:52 AM PDT by MarMema (Buy Danish, support freedom)
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Our "American Idol" coverage has clearly demonstrated that news isn't just shootings and fires, city councils and school boards, politics and elections. It's more than that.

It's a review of a new movie that opens some still-fresh wounds from 9/11. And it's a show that captivates viewers from elementary schoolchildren to the elderly, a show that brings families together every Tuesday and Wednesday night to watch and root, a show that inspires radio call-in shows and "Elliott" parties and billboards all over town.

I will say that Elliott has given people in Richmond something to be excited about. Everywhere you go there are signs, bumper stickers, banners and decorated cars. Little kids are writing him letters, the local diabetes groups have someone that they can point to with the disease who is out there living life, families gather round the TV at night and the chatter is all good. Richmond news is often depressing in terms of the inner city violence and politics. It's great that they have something else to cover that's actually positive.

11,371 posted on 05/07/2006 1:17:40 PM PDT by misterrob (Death once came calling for Jack Bauer. Death went home to mommy with a wedgie and no lunch money)
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