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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: H-Man who wrote (306662)10/9/2002 2:56:49 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Re: "In order for what you say to be true, it would have to be the case that the Whitehouse decides what is news."

>>> In regard to preempting Prime Time scheduled programing it *does*, and always has.

>>> It requests preemption for ALL major policy announcements, and always has.

>>> The White House has *NEVER* not received Prime Time preemption when it has requested it. Never.

>>> The 'unwritten rule' is that it only requests same for 'major' policy announcements... not for lesser speeches before partisan audiences. That is why it always receives coverage when it asks.
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But the White House itself signaled that it was not a 'major policy speech' because it:

1) Didn't ask for coverage. (They ALWAYS ask for coverage for major speeches, and are ALWAYS given full coverage when they ask).

2) And it gave the speech at a partisan gathering, not from the Oval Office - or other symbolically important setting - thus further signaling that it was not to be 'major' news.

And, in fact, no new ground was broken, no new policy put forward... so everybody was right: nothing new or important enough to justify interupting the profit-making of prime time.
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