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ages 2 and older. Viewership is listed in millions. Program Network View- ersProgram Network Viewers 1 NBA Finals: Game 7ABC19.00 2 Dancing With the StarsABC15.52 3 NBA Finals: Game 6ABC13.47 4 CSICBS12.28 5 Two and a Half MenCBS10.85 --------------------------------------------6 CSI: MiamiCBS10.42 7 Without a TraceCBS10.26 8 Everybody Loves Raymond CBS10.06 9 Law OrderNBC9.47 10 60 MinutesCBS9.03 --------------------------------------------11 100 Years ...100 Movie CBS9.00 12 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition ABC8.89 13 Katie Couric NBC8.69 14 Law Order: SVUNBC8.45 15 HouseFOX8.38 --------------------------------------------16 Cold CaseCBS8.27 17 18 Law Order (9 p.m.)NBC7.71 19 Law Order: Criminal Intent NBC7.63 20 Crossing JordanNBC7.57 --------------------------------------------21 Gametime: Game ABC7.51 22 CSI: NYCBS7.42 23 Still StandingCBS7.40 24 MediumNBC7.35 25 Family GuyFOX7.34 --------------------------------------------26 48 Hours MysteryCBS6.98 27 KitchenFOX6.93 28 The Simpsons (8:30 p.m.) FOX6.92 29 I Want to be a HiltonNBC6.75 30 --------------------------------------------31 60 Minutes WednesdayCBS6.55 32 SupernannyABC6.51 33 Numb3rsCBS6.47 34 Still Standing CBS6.45 35 The SimpsonsFOX6.42 --------------------------------------------36 American DadFOX6.39 37 Extreme: Makeover: Home Edition ABC6.29 38 Las VegasNBC6.21 39 Most WantedFOX6.11 40 Nanny 911FOX5.85 --------------------------------------------41 Desperate HousewivesABC5.84 42 LostABC5.83 43 Cops (8:30 p.m.)FOX5.77 44 Crimetime SaturdayCBS5.75 45 Psychic DetectivesNBC5.70 --------------------------------------------46 Dateline: NBC 47 Funniest Home Videos ABC5.61 48 Law Order: Trial by Jury NBC5.57 49 Gametime: Game ABC5.49 50 WWE --------------------------------------------51 King of QueensCBS5.42 52 My Wife and KidsABC5.13 53 Hit Me Baby One More Time NBC5.04 54 CopsFOX4.98 55 Dateline: NBC --------------------------------------------56 48 Hours Mystery Joey (8:30 p.m.)NBC4.90 58 Yes, DearCBS4.86 59 JAG (9 p.m.)CBS4.85 60 Fear FactorNBC4.78 --------------------------------------------61 Malcolm in the MiddleFOX4.76 62 Funniest Home Videos (Sat.) ABC4.74 63 The CutCBS4.67 64 65 JAGCBS4.51 --------------------------------------------66 Trading SpousesFOX4.50 King of the HillFOX4.50 68 ERNBC4.48 69 JoeyNBC4.47 70 My Wife and KidsABC4.44 --------------------------------------------Dateline: NBC 72 Hope FaithABC3.87 73 The InsideFOX3.86 74 Beauty and the Geek (Wed.) WB3.85 Less Than PerfectABC3.85 --------------------------------------------76 The ScholarABC3.59 77 That ShowFOX3.54 78 Hope Faith (8:30 p.m.)ABC3.45 79 8 Simple RulesABC3.38 80 of --------------------------------------------81 Wonderful World of Disney ABC3.07 82 Blue Collar TV (8:30 p.m.) WB3.00 83 84 StackedFOX2.93 85 GirlfriendsUPN2.66 --------------------------------------------86 Blue Collar TVWB2.64 87 Beauty and the Geek (Thu.) WB2.60 88 Half and Half 89 All of UsUPN2.48 90 7th HeavenWB2.41 --------------------------------------------91 SummerlandWB2.40 92 The O.C. (9 p.m.)FOX2.24 93 The O.C.FOX2.23 94 RebaWB2.22 95 One on OneUPN2.18 --------------------------------------------96 GirlfriendsUPN2.17 97 Gilmore GirlsWB2.11 98 SmallvilleWB2.06 99 Eve (8:30 p.m.)UPN1.99 100 Steve Big TimeWB1.95 --------------------------------------------101 Living With FranWB1.91 102 EveUPN1.87 103 Half and Half 104 Miles to UPN1.77 105 What I Like About You (8:30 p.m.) WB1.70 --------------------------------------------Bad Girls GuideUPN1.70 107 All of UsUPN1.69 Veronica MarsUPN1.69 109 Charmed (8 p.m.)WB1.58 110 What I Like About YouWB1.55 --------------------------------------------111 CharmedWB1.32 112 One Tree HillWB1.30 Network averages Here is the number of viewers (in millions) that each network averaged per hour of prime time, for last week and for the season. Network Last week Season to date CBS7.5112.34 ABC7.199.65 NBC6.029.39 FOX4.859.50 UPN2.673.28 WB2.163.22 Los Angeles Times From City News Service ABC had last three most-watched programs led by Game 7 of the NBA Finals but viewers continued to flock to reruns, making it the most- watched network, according to figures released Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research.

The San Antonio 81-74 Game 7 victory over the Detroit Pistons on Thursday was seen by more than 19 million people, Nielsen reported. It was the second-most-watched NBA concluding game over the last five years, trailing only last finale of the Lakers-Pistons series. 95-86 Game 6 victory was the third-most-watched program between June 20 and Sunday, with nearly 13.5 million viewers. Although the average viewer- ship for the series more than 12.5 million was the second- lowest since such figures began being kept in 1987 and the 8.2 household rating was the second-lowest since 1982, an ABC spokesman expressed satisfaction with the NBA performance. Mark Mandel said.

NBA did great numbers for us. It let us win every night it was on. In sports and in television, the objective is to beat your competition, and what the NBA did for Comparable ratings for most forms of programming have dropped over the years because of increased competition from cable television, the Internet, video games and DVDs. Despite success with basketball and its hit summer series With the CBS had six of the top 10 programs and eight of the top 16 to finish first for the fourth consecutive week. TV Ratings ABC scores with NBA, but CBS wins By Russ Baker Special to The Times OES the unspooling Iraq saga fill you with adisquieting sense of vu? Feel like been there, done that, been lied to and spun in this manner somewhere else, at some other point in time? Well, because you have.

Norman Solomon, a longtime media critic, lays out the elaborate hustle in his new book, Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to all there Vietnam, the invasions of Panama and Grenada, the first Gulf War and more. (Including a first chapter about the 1965 U.S. invasion of the Dominican Republic, an unfortunately labored and obscure choice to lead off an otherwise compelling read.) The villains are the government and the media: the government because time and again it remorselessly falsifies the reality of war, and the media because major press and broadcast outlets seem to wriggle free from self-interest long enough to speak truth to power. Solomon offers 16 brutally persuasive chapters, each centered on a perennial falsehood, such as This War Is Wrong, Congress Will Stop Is About Human and Is Not at All About Oil or Corporate One insidious whopper that American war leaders always yearn for peace runs counter to such evidence as the Nixon tapes, in which the president, who publicly expressed concern about the Indochina carnage, is caught on the White House recording system discussing with Henry A. Kissinger an extension of the bombing to new targets in North Vietnam: Nixon: still think we ought to take the dikes that drown Kissinger: 200,000 Nixon: no, rather use the nuclear Ijust want you to think big, Henry, for The belief that the media will remain vigilant to government misconduct in times of war is belied by an internal MSNBC report cited by Solomon, which explains why Phil show (with which Solomon was associated) was canceled shortly before the Iraq invasion.

Keeping Donahue on the air, says one MSNBC executive, would a difficult public face for NBC in a time of war a home for the liberal antiwar agenda at the same time that our competitors are waving the flag at every Solomon also notes that less than of the sources featured on the Iraq first three weeks could be considered For sheer chutzpah, nothing tops the story of U.S.troops during the 1989 invasion of Panama seizing a huge cache of dictator and former U.S. ally Manuel cocaine. Well after the event, the military was forced to admit that the reported stash was actually tamales wrapped in banana leaves. This was followed by the claim that Noriega had used the stash for acts of witchcraft and Solomon is most outraged by what he sees as the utter disconnect between Americans and the true horror of wars carried out in their name and with their approval. He cites James Baldwin on denial, on fraudulent and expedient nature of the American innocence which has always been able to persuade itself that it does not know what it knows too And Solomon adds, we at least dimly aware that no matter how smooth and easy the news media and elected officials try to make it for us in faraway places there are people not so different than us who are being destroyed by what journalists and politicians glibly depict as necessary Made is largely an amalgam of material from books, speechesand articles.

But Solomon is a formidable thinker and activist in his own right. He traveled with Sean Penn to Iraq shortly before the invasion, and one wishes he had shared more of his considerable experiences in the media trenches. voice, when he gives it full throat, is appropriately sardonic. Here he comments on a USA Today headline from June 2004, about the incoming Iraqi prime support for the U.S.: banner headline was a classic of occupation puppetry and media Solomon writes, noting that IyadAllawiwas long close to the CIA but a virtual stranger to the Iraqi people. in all, by lights, the man was eminently qualified to be his superb judgment was immediately apparent: Leader Asks U.S.

to Made is a must- read for those who would like greater context with their bitter morning coffee, or to arm themselves for the debates about Iraq that are still to come. Solomon cites a 2003 Los Angeles Times article, in which top Pentagon officials studying the lessons of Iraq closely to ensure that the next U.S. takeover of a foreign country goes more Says a top assistant to Defense Secretary Donald H.Rumsfeld: get better as we do it more Russ Baker (www.russbaker a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review and founder of a new nonprofit, the Real News Project, dedicated to investigative journalism. BOOK REVIEW Harsh insight into how we make war War Made Easy How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death Norman Solomon John Wiley Sons: 320 $24.95.