Viewers sometimes want the “tabloid” stories late at night — so will Nightline give viewers what they want? TV Guide asked James Goldston, and he said:
“We won’t shy away from doing those stories. We’ll only do them if we can do them in a Nightline way and in a way in which we can bring distinction to them. There are certain tabloid stories that aren’t appropriate for Nightline, like Natalee Holloway in Aruba. That’s a very good example of a story we wouldn’t do…It’s been covered kind of wall-to-wall because of the personal tragedy of it, but it doesn’t raise those big questions, which is what Nightline is all about.”
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