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Season 19 |
| 375 :19x01 - The Choice 2000 (Oct/02/2000) | | Parallel portraits of Presidential rivals George W. Bush and Al Gore are presented. Producer Michael Kirk and correspondent Peter Boyer probe their backgrounds and explore their personalities in interviews with some 70 people (including the candidates' wives), all of whom have known the two men and none of whom are pundits. Accordingly, Kirk says, “we're not wrestling with a lot of policy; we're wrestling with who they are.” | | Starring Roles: George W. Bush as Himself, Al Gore as Himself | Director: Michael Kirk (2)
Writer: Michael Kirk (2) | | | |
| 376 :19x02 - Drug Wars, Part 1 (Oct/09/2000) | | Veteran reporter-producer Lowell Bergman charts the U.S. Government's largely futile efforts to stem drug trafficking in this panoramic two-part report. Bergman enlists both drug “warriors” (retired U.S. agents) and former traffickers to tell this sad 30-year saga. As Part 1 begins, the Nixon Administration is focusing its antidrug efforts on treatment. The strategy didn't last, and Bergman believes that it's too bad it didn't. As he puts it: “People involved in the drug business say, 'hey, this is a business. If there is no great demand, we wouldn't be supplying it'.” | | | |
| 377 :19x03 - Drug Wars, Part 2 (Oct/10/2000) | | The conclusion of “Drug Wars” focuses on the increase in smuggling through Mexico and the introduction of crack cocaine into U.S. cities, both in the 1980s. The smuggling led to an increase in corruption in Mexico, while the crack epidemic led to the passage of laws mandating draconian sentences for drug violators, filling U.S. prisons. Also examined: allegations that Nicaragua's Sandinista government and Contra rebels were involved in trafficking. Interviewed: former National Security adviser Oliver North; U.S. drug “czar” Barry McCaffrey; former DEA chief Jack Lawn. Lowell Bergman reports. | | | |
| 378 :19x04 - The Future of War (Oct/24/2000) | | “The Future of War” examines efforts by Gen. Eric Shinseki, the Army chief of staff, to streamline his service to enable it to strike faster. As Shinseki, who's interviewed throughout the report, put it at his induction ceremony: “Our heavy forces are too heavy and our light forces lack the staying power that we need.” The hour explores problems (potential and actual) with “lethality and survivability” in the Persian Gulf, Somalia and the Balkans, and weighs differences of opinion over armored vehicles and military-readiness policy. Interviewees include vice presidential candidates Dick Cheney (R) and Joseph Lieberman (D). | | | |
| 379 :19x05 - Real Justice, Part 1 (Oct/31/2000) | | The wheels of justice turn---creakily, but they do turn---as shown in this two-part chronicle of daily operations in Boston's court system. Part 1 focuses on District Court, where minor criminal cases are heard. That's where prosecutor Viktor Theiss and public defender Lisa Medeiros are seen juggling up to 15 cases a day. For Medeiros, success isn't necessarily an acquittal, it's a “sweet deal” with prosecutors---a teenager not losing his chance for a driver's license; a welfare-fraud convict's restitution cut in half. And the thanks she gets? A “thank you,” occasionally. | | | |
| 380 :19x06 - Real Justice, Part 2 (Nov/21/2000) | | Conclusion. Three criminal cases in Boston's Superior Court are followed. Two of the cases involve deaths, and all three involve plea bargaining. In one case, a mother is accused of hitting her children. A child died in another. The defendant: his teenage baby-sitter. And in the third case, two brothers are on trial for killing a man in a South Boston bar. If they plea-bargain, one would get seven years, the other 18. If they don't, both could get life. | | | |
| 381 :19x07 - The Clinton Years (Jan/16/2001) | | ABC's Chris Bury reviews “The Clinton Years” in this film crafted from reports produced by ABC's “Nightline.” The documentary combines “Nightline” segments from that era with post-Clinton interviews with administration figures. Among them: Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; former labor secretary Robert Reich; former sreasury secretary Robert Rubin; former press secretaries Dee Dee Myers, Mike McCurry and Joe Lockhart; and ex-advisors Dick Morris, James Carville, George Stephanopoulos and Paul Begala, who calls Clinton “the smartest guy I ever met.” | | | |
| 382 :19x08 - Juvenile Justice (Jan/30/2001) | | Should youngsters charged with serious crimes be tried as adults? Four cases in Santa Clara County, Cal., are examined. In March 2000, California voters approved a referendum mandating adult trials for some offenses, and the four defendants profiled here are charged with crimes committed in late 1999. “Each case has a set of facts that makes it a difficult call,” according to correspondent Michel Martin, who interviews prosecutors, defense lawyers and judges, as well as people involved in the cases. | | | |
| 383 :19x09 - Saving Elian (Feb/06/2001) | | “Saving Elian” reviews the passions and conflicts that surrounded the 6-year-old boy who became a symbol of South Florida's struggle with Cuban Communism. The hour traces the seven-month tug-of-war over Elian Gonzalez, which began on Thanksgiving Day 1999. But mostly it explores the character of Miami's Cuban community to see why the tugging was so tenacious. As for Elian himself, the report isn't really about him. Nor was the tug of war, the hour claims. “He became a pawn in a political game,” says businessman Carlos Saladrigas. “And in the end everything mattered but Elian.” | | | |
| 384 :19x10 - Hackers (Feb/13/2001) | | A primer on Internet vulnerability explores how hackers can break into personal, corporate and government computers, and charts some of the damage they've caused. Producer Neil Docherty reviews notorious cases (including that of a Florida 16-year-old who broke into NASA's computer system); visits a hackers convention; and interviews Government Accounting Office technologist Keith Rhodes, who tested the computer systems of 26 government agencies. How successful was his team at breaking into them? “We were always successful,” Rhodes says. | | | |
| 385 :19x11 - The Merchants of Cool (Feb/27/2001) | | In “The Merchants of Cool,” media commentator Douglas Rushkoff explores why teenagers buy what they tell themselves to buy (with a nudge from media conglomerates). The problem: “cool” is hard to find, and once marketers do find and market something that's “cool,” it ceases to be so. Rushkoff follows “cool hunters” as they track teen tastes, and marketers as they try to camouflage their intentions. His case studies: MTV and “Dawson's Creek.” His conclusion: “It's a giant feedback loop. The media watches kids and then sells them an image of themselves.” | | | |
| 386 :19x12 - Organ Farm (Mar/27/2001) | A two-part survey of the prospects for animal-to-human organ and cell transplantation begins with an assessment of its pros and cons (and graphic footage of a human-to-human heart transplant). The upside of xenotransplantation (as it's called): “If it works,” says narrator Will Lyman, “it will take transplant surgery from a life-saving therapy for a lucky few and make it available to everyone.” Of course, it doesn't work yet. There are also the concerns of animal-rights activists, not to mention, says neurosurgeon Galen Henderson, the existence of “so many unknowns.”
A two-part report on prospects for animal-to-human transplantation concludes by focusing on the possibility of transmissible genetic viruses in organs taken from pigs. It's the fear, says Hugh Auchincloss of the FDA: “that you create AIDS 2.” Another downside---the rejection of animal organs by recipients---is seen being addressed with the cloning of “transgenic” pigs at a Wisconsin facility. The upside is seen in three case studies of patients whose lives were saved by experimental procedures. | | | |
| 387 :19x13 - Medicating Kids (Apr/10/2001) | | The effectiveness and necessity of stimulant drugs that are prescribed for children with attention-deficit disorder are weighed. On one side: Patti Johnson of the Colorado Board of Education. “Too many children are being diagnosed and labeled, and too many children are on these drugs,” she says. But parents of three of the four Denver-area youngsters profiled would disagree. Says one father: “The bottom line is that after [the] medication, we saw the results.” | | | | | | |
| 389 :19x15 - LAPD Blues (May/15/2001) | | Reporter Peter J. Boyer explores allegations of corruption in the Los Angeles police department. His story begins with a 1997 road-rage incident involving two officers (one white and one black), and involves gangsta rappers, an antigang unit in the city's tough Rampart section and a rogue unit member who accused some 70 officers of misdeeds. Many of the charges haven't held up, but the bottom line, Boyer says, is that the LAPD “is considered so corrupt and brutal that it requires supervision by the Federal Government.” | | | |
| 390 :19x16 - Blackout (Jun/05/2001) | | Correspondent Lowell Bergman explores the utility-deregulation disaster that has hit California and examines whether or not the rest of the U.S. will be next. Bergman also visits Pennsylvania, where a different form of deregulation hasn't led to consumer pain---yet; Washington, D.C. (interviewees include Vice President Dick Cheney); and Houston, where new energy “trading” companies are thriving. The report is a collaboration with the New York Times. | | | |
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