Press: Out of The Mouths of Babes

TV's hardest-hitting newsmagazine show is made by kids

The administrator of a Florida psychiatric hospital stares blankly into the television camera as the reporter bores in on him. "What kind of degree does your admissions clerk have?" asks the correspondent, who has already shown us how the hospital readily admits children for extended stays. "I'm not really sure," responds the administrator wanly. "Well, yesterday I looked," the reporter says. "He wasn't a nurse. He wasn't a doctor. Isn't that a little strange?"

Strange indeed, but hardly stranger than the identity of the questioner. If the administrator had been sitting before Mike Wallace or Ted Koppel, he might have been...

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