CONTAINING LINKS TO 1280 STORIES FROM THE NETWORKS' NIGHTLY NEWSCASTS
     COMMENTS: Granny Becomes a YouTube Star

It is a perennial crowd pleaser to close a newscast--an elderly character gets exposed to modern technology and finds a new lease on life. When Nintendo Wii was first released, NBC's George Lewis publicized the software by following a virtual bowling league at a Seattle retirement home…ABC's David Wright brought us the geriatric Zimmers singing My Generation on YouTube from England…also on YouTube, ABC's Ron Claiborne found Feed Me Bubbe, the Yiddish grandmother's recipe show…now CBS' Michelle Miller potters around the kitchen with Clara Cannucciaria, aged 93, as she hosts Depression Cooking by Clara, a frugal how-to for making meals at 50c a serving. Stale bread drenched in water and olive oil "is good for old people that do not have teeth."

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