The former commander said in an interview that network producers had only read the documents to him over the phone.

For the most part, network producers in New York have relied on correspondents to gauge risks.

During flights last week, he talked baseball with one network producer.

But many network producers denounce them essentially as fictionalizations.

If black people were big consumers of news magazine shows, then the network producers would have some incentive to find stories about black people.

"We said to hell with it," says the network producer.

Three people sit at a table: a network producer, a researcher and a writer.

In part, this might be because network producers and newspaper editors rarely make it to Washington to hear oral arguments.

Instead of messing with me, why don't you sleep with a network producer?

It's about what one might call "teledemocracy": people telling their own stories unmediated by reporters or network producers.