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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: H-Man who wrote (305593)10/8/2002 12:11:37 PM
From: Neeka  Respond to of 769670
 
I looked at the very beginning of the speech, and they were all covering. Evidentially they stopped short of covering the entire speech. In my book that gives them zero credibility. They have nothing to say in the matter, and they simply do not count. They are irrelevant, and they know it.

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To: H-Man who wrote (305593)10/8/2002 12:13:41 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps  Respond to of 769670
 
The Bush Administration told the networks, in advance, there would be nothing new in the speech. They were correct. There was nothing new. Hard to blame the networks under the circumstances.



To: H-Man who wrote (305593)10/8/2002 12:18:53 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670
 
The networks ALWAYS cover a speech when the President asks them to.

The White House did not ask them to this time.

Presumably that because they knew no new policy ground was going to be covered.

The President gambled that they would interrupt their profitable prime time shows to cover the speech anyway - even though he did not ask them to - and he lost the gamble.


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