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May 31, 2004

Media on Memorial Day

Notes on watching TV from Arlington:
There was a prayer before the speeches. Fox covered it. MSNBC decided that their talking heads were more important and instead focused on a pciture of the tomb while you could slightly hear the prayer but couldn't make out the words in the background. They didn't cut back to live coverage until after Gen. Myers had already started speaking.
The MSNBC producer should be fired.
CNN was reporting news from Iraq at this point.

After Myers, Rummy spoke and got a huge ovation. I think he was got off guard and was a bit choked up by the support.

Bush's speech was fine except the camera seems to keep bouncing around while he was speaking. What was going on here? It was the same on all three news networks, probably a pool camera.
Someone else should be fired over this.

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