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After starting its newscast with sport, ABC devoted most of the remainder to show business. Dan Harris (no link) covered the movie story that NBC's Mike Taibbi reported on yesterday: Paramount Studios has delayed the release of The Kite Runner for fear that audiences in Afghanistan, where it is set, may be incited to violence by seeing its taboo-breaking tale of a boy being raped and its "graphic portrayal of ethnic hatred." Bill Weir (subscription required) examined efforts to protect copyrighted songs. After the recording industry failed to shut down music sharing software sites, "they started going after the people who use them." Jammie Thomas, a single mother of two from Minnesota, was one such music fan: she shared two dozen tunes; a jury ordered her to pay $220,000 in damages.
Anchor Charles Gibson sat down with singer Stevie Wonder, ABC's Person of the Week. Each ventured into the other's territory. The blind Wonder complained about Gibson's news judgment: "I was watching television and, you know, how can they spend so much time talking about OJ? How about gang violence? What about this war? What about hunger? What about the peace that we talk about?" And, in a gutsy display, Gibson made up his own words to snatches of Wonder's My Cherie Amour--and sang them aloud to the star.
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