Last night I tuned in to see if they were doing something on John Denver. They didn't but I wasn't let down. They did an incredible Robert Krolich special on the effect of big money on nerds like me in Silicon valley, I watched the first 10 minutes and got the rest on tape. So I'll have a lot more to say later. It was awesome.

Well, Terry, I think it is later...

I was in Denver last year and they don't even mention him or play his music in the entire state that I am aware of, as we hunted for a station carrying his music. None to be found. Barry posted a long commentary on something on Nightline...perhaps he will add his comments here, too.

From the Dean Blog: [quote]TONIGHT'S FOCUS: It's the question that has been hanging over this country since those awful moments on September 11th. Could it have been prevented? Now the co-chairman of the commission investigating the attacks says "Yes." It's somehow easier to accept a tragedy if there was just no way to avoid it. If you start saying things like "if only he had left two minutes earlier" or "if only she had missed the plane," you'll go crazy in the end. It's easier to accept something as an "act of God," something that we had no control over. Because to think that somehow, by acting or not acting, a tragedy could have been averted, lives spared, is something that is almost impossible to live with. That is true especially of 9/11. There have been countless stories about people who survived because they left late for work, and people who perished because they got there early, or something like that. But could the attacks have been stopped before they started? That's the real question. A commission was formed to investigate. Were there structural problems in the government that prevented the sharing of information? Yes. Did agencies miss crucial information? Of course. But it's hard not to ask, in spite of all of the problems, was it really possible to have stopped the attacks? The chair of that commission, former New Jersey governor Thomas Kean, says that the attacks were preventable, and that there are those who bear responsibility for not stopping them, some of them still in positions of authority. Gov. Kean will be Chris Bury's sole guest tonight, and we'll talk about all of those issues. If there is responsibility, if people did make mistakes, it's hard to imagine how anyone could live with that. Every image of those buildings in flames would be a reproach. We rarely do a broadcast that consists of just a conversation between the anchor and a guest. That is what we're going to do tonight. I hope you'll join us. Leroy Sievers and the Nightline Staff ABCNEWS Washington bureau