Nightline Email

July 10 -- We received many e-mails about our recent rebroadcast on Eva Cassidy and our broadcast of alternative treatments for Lyme Disease. Here's just a few of the emails we received.

Summary of the week

Dear Nightline:

Jack Lemmon, Eva Cassidy, and now the artist in residence at M.I.T. What a week! These are the kinds of shows that make Nightline the best show on TV.

Fred Morris

Robert Krulwich Goes Fishing

Dear Nightline:

The episode "Gone Fishing ... for Paramecium" on July 6 was one of your most interesting programs ever. Please do more of this type. Aside from interesting me, it may encourage children to study science.

Beth Jones

Lyme Disease Report

Dear Nightline:

I was very disappointed with your coverage of Lyme disease on July 5, 2001. Mr. Koppel was ill prepared for this broadcast and your coverage was extremely biased. You could have, at the very least, had a physician who is treating Lyme patients on your panel.

And to equate antibiotic therapy with Cancer therapy using urine is ludicrous! Long-term antibiotic therapy is not alternative medicine - just ask any dermatologist. You have done a great disservice to the people who are suffering most and who look to your news programs for accurate reporting.

My 13-year-old daughter has been suffering from Lyme disease for over 2 years and has been on antibiotics for 14 months. Before starting treatment she couldn't even get out of bed. She has made excellent progress and looks forward to the day when she can be healthy once again. She is seeing a bona fide MD with excellent credentials who is prescribing long term antibiotics.This is not alternative medicine and I fear that if this doctor is harassed then we will have nowhere to turn.

Shame on you for pandering to the money interests of the medical and insurance establishment! I only hope that my daughter doesn't suffer from you lack of good judgement.

Sheila M. Lederman

Eva Cassidy's Impact

Dear Nightline:

As always I try to stay awake to watch Nightline because it always has interesting topics and information I might not find elsewhere.