CBS's Fallen Heroes

[KingKane]

CBS evening news (on Sky News 12.30am - 1.00am) does a thing they call fallen heroes each evening. I don't have a specific problem with US networks honour their war dead in this manner, but I've wondered for a while about the logistics of this and the background to it starting. Essentially, I would surmise that when it began CBS and the US generally thought they'd lose less than one soldier per day and that it wouldn't go on for that long. However, now the losses are approaching 2,000 and that's over a 2 and a half year period, say 800+ days. Thats a backlog of over a thousands troops. If they are doing one a day then are there going to be soldiers who aren't honoured in this way or will they continue to honour them after the situation in Iraq is resolved?

And example here.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/...in550779.shtml

I'm guessing the tv networks didn't think this one through completely.

[BarryW]

I've always found that segment to be banal, and hypocritical. The CBS News is difficult enough to watch - without yet more padding

[Maeve]

IIRC, CBS started this after a big blow-up when some ABC affiliates refused to air a "Nightline" that simply read the names of all the American troops who had died in Iraq (supposedly, the affiliates thought that was too "political", i.e. anti-war ) It was as much news solidarity as anything else.

[badinage]

Far from being anti-war, I've always found that segment quite shockingly patriotic and one-sided. Even if Sky News started a similar segment, they'd refer to them as "Casualties in Iraq", not as "Fallen Heroes".