According to Peter Jennings, the ABC anchor, network officials "came to the dangerous conclusion that Americans are not interested in the rest of the world".
Christina Aguilera, Chaka Khan and John Mayer will anchor the Official Prince Tribute, at the Xcel Energy Center in St .Paul.
Like the TV anchors, the officials who had to carry out the sentence talked about "the protocol" and "the process" and "the procedure" and "the execution facility" rather than speaking in plain English.
Known back in the 1990s as one of the faces of "independent journalism", Mr Kiselev has recently become notorious for his extreme and sometimes bizarre diatribes in his role as a top anchor on official channel Rossiya 1.
So officials anchored the vegetable peeler to the wall, too.
In the United States, television images of Afghan bombing victims are fleeting, cushioned between anchors or American officials explaining that such sights are only one side of the story.
And at a time when polls show that more than 70percentt of Americans support President Bush's military action, television anchors, not government officials or reporters in the field, have become an easy target for viewer anxiety or frustration.
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"We, the heroes of Kweires, are now celebrating this victory with our brothers," one fighter told the anchor of an official station.
The convenience of such publicity landing just a week before his album dropping and soon after CNN anchor Anderson Cooper's official coming out almost seemed strategic.
