COMMENTS: Friday Features
The looming debate pre-empted CBS' normal weekender, Steve Hartman's Assignment America. ABC went ahead with its Person of the Week. Anchor Charles Gibson introduced us to Julia Burney-Witherspoon, a police officer in Racine Wisc, who founded the child literacy program Cops & Kids. Squad cars cruise the city with books in their trunks, ready to be distributed free to children. NBC's Making a Difference feature profiled Dan Cook, a one-time commodities trader, turned fly-fisherman. Mike Taibbi had the arduous assignment of hanging out in the picturesque canyons of Utah's Green River where Cook offers disabled veterans sanctuary and fishing therapy.
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