A Ticklish Matter of "Law and Order"

NBC yanked episodes of its show "Law and Order" featuring Fred Thompson from its schedule after he officially announced his candidacy for president. Would running them violate federal equal-time regulations - even the syndicated reruns on lower rated cable channels like TNT and USA? DePauw University Communications Professor Jeffrey M. McCall says maybe not, and that anyone who presses such a claim runs the risk of looking like a whiner and giving Thompson even more attention.

Home State Unfazed by Talk of Thompson White House Bid

So far, Tennesseeans are mostly yawning over the prospects of native son Fred Thompson's yet-to-be-officially-declared candidacy for president, says DePauw University's Ken Bode. Perhaps it's because they've been down this road many times before. "There is something in the water of this long, horizontal, two-time-zone state that causes its politicians to think they should be president, beginning, probably, with Andrew Jackson, who actually held the job," Bode says.