1.   Erlich remembered his face from the network news, bleak and uncompromising and shamed, when the announcement was made.

2.   On any given weekday night, around thirty-eight million people are watching the network news, with millions more watching local news.

3.   The staid and once-serious network news has begun to look like glitzy local news operations.

4.   The network news overplayed the story just to get good ratings.

5.   American voters who rely on television for their political information these days primarily see slanted attack ads and abbreviated sound bites on the network news.

6.   And all of this is being fairly well reported by mainstream American media channels such as The New York Times and network news.

7.   And not surprisingly, stories of trade wars and political fights dominate print headlines and network news.

8.   And if they miss it there they can watch the network evening news.

9.   As they have done in other potentially embarrassing situations in recent weeks, the committee released the records too late to make the network news.

10.   Ashcroft gave five network news interviews on the White House lawn Friday morning, a day after five persons were wounded in a school shooting in California.