Question: How come all news networks refused to show Apollo 13's live TV broadcast?
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Answer: The US had been to the moon twice before. America had already become jaded with NASA's successes and weren't interested in minute by minute coverage before they'd even reached the lunar surface.
Brian Katcher
The American public was not jaded with the lunar program so much as it was the Big Three television networks that had become complacent.
Charles Austin Miller