Free Republic

BBC admits blunder over sleep disorder clip Jason Deans, broadcasting editor Tuesday January 25, 2005 Documentary footage showing people falling asleep in a Narcolepsy Association meeting should not have been rebroadcast as part of the BBC's Greatest TV Moments show, the corporation's governors have ruled. The clip, from BBC1 documentary Nap Attack, which looked at the impact of sleep disorder narcolepsy on sufferers' lives, prompted laughter from the studio audience for 2002 Greatest TV Moments, which was presented by Jonathan Ross. A complaint by a member of the Narcolepsy Association UK - UKAN - about the inclusion of the Nap...

Monday, Aug. 9, 2004 9:59 a.m. EDT Kerry Edwards Campaign Snubs Cancer Kids The Kerry Edwards campaign disappointed dozens of children suffering with cancer on Sunday when the candidates' whistlestop train tour failed to stop and greet them while traveling through a ranch where they were vacationing in New Mexico. "The train tracks run for four miles through the ranch," complained radio host Don Imus, who runs the Imus Ranch for the kids - some of them terminally ill - near Santa Fe, New Mexico. "We couldn't even get them to even slow down so they could wave." he lamented....