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It is a Friday, so all three networks closed with standard issue inspirational features. ABC's Person of the Week and CBS' Assignment America found themselves stuck in the same rut. Both chose a young woman artist who paints pictures that benefit children. CBS' Steve Hartman gave us Shelby Johnson, a 19-year-old juvenile dermatomyositis patient, of Memphis; ABC's Charles Gibson chose Amanda Dunbar, aged 22, the youngest member of the Texas Women's Hall of Fame.
NBC made a different choice for its Making a Difference series. John Larson told us about a success in the Truth & Reconciliation process in South Africa in the aftermath of the apartheid regime. The parents of Amy Biehl, the blonde anti-apartheid activist from Wisconsin who was murdered by a mob of black Africans in 1993, participated in T&R. They started a foundation in their daughter's name, which included on its staff the four men who received amnesty after confessing to her death. Now, Larson told us, Ntobeko Peni travels with Linda Biehl, the mother of the woman he killed, "to speak about violence and forgiveness."
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