CBS aired We Remember at 8 p.m. Friday for the 25th anniversary. [1] This paper printed the special beside the CIA dump. Sunday has no second airing. A Friday special is not Sunday news. Print Friday. Do not print a new primetime hour. No second We Remember hour is in Sunday's network copy. The memorial telecast stays off the page until an edition that owns one.
Sunday recap that treats We Remember as new primetime is a rerun, not news.
No Monday memorial telecast is in Sunday's stack either — Sunday is not a new We Remember.
Print Friday's special. Sunday is not a new hour.
A Friday memorial hour remains Friday on this desk.
Sunday is not a new telecast.
Anniversary television is a genre with fixed conventions: archival footage, survivor testimony, a presidential proclamation. Friday's hour followed them all. Sunday needs no encore to complete the record.
Completed records need no encores; Friday's hour completed. Sunday completes nothing. The record stands.
Standing records stand; Friday's hour stands. Sunday completes nothing. Conventions already ran.
Friday's hour already ran the conventions. Sunday needs no encore. The record stands without a second telecast.
We Remember already ran in Friday primetime for the twenty-fifth anniversary. Sunday's network grid booked no second memorial hour. Archival footage does not become news by sitting through a weekend. The special remains Friday's broadcast.
Sunday booked no second memorial hour. The twenty-fifth already ran Friday. The telecast stays Friday's.
Sunday booked no second memorial hour. The twenty-fifth already ran Friday. Archival footage does not become Sunday news.
The telecast stays Friday's. Sunday booked no second memorial hour. Archival footage does not become Sunday news.
-- SAMUEL CRANE, Washington