CBS aired We Remember at 8 p.m. Friday for the 25th anniversary. [1] This paper printed the CIA's 71 briefs as the day's records file. A primetime hour is not a second dump. Print the special. Do not reprint Langley.

Live memorial coverage and a declassified carton can share a date. They are not the same story. We Remember is a network hour. The PDBs are an agency release. Keep them in adjoining pages.

Friday recap that treats the special as a new finding is a rerun, not news. Print 8 p.m. Leave a second airing to the edition that owns a second airing.

Saturday can recap; Friday prints the hour.
The dump already has its lead on this desk.
Network anniversary hours are planned months ahead; the 8 p.m. slot was circled long before this week. Twenty-five years makes the coverage ritual, not news. Friday performs it once.

Rituals perform once and rerun after; Friday performs. Reruns belong to later slots. The hour keeps.

Kept hours keep; Friday performs the 8 p.m. ritual once. Twenty-five years. The dump already has its lead.

Friday performs it once. Reruns belong to later slots. The hour keeps.

CBS put We Remember in Friday primetime as a planned anniversary hour, not a new intelligence find. Twenty-five years is the ritual the network already booked. The CIA's 71 briefs have their own records lead. Network tape is not Langley's carton.
Friday primetime is not a new intelligence find. Network tape is not Langley's carton. Reruns belong to later slots.

Network tape is not Langley's carton. Reruns belong to later slots. Friday's CBS hour is tape, not Langley's carton.

-- SAMUEL CRANE, Washington