CNN Says it Overplayed Deans Speech

[candy331]

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(I got this from my homepage on aol, yes i still have aol but a few more days and aol will be history for me. Of course CNN is not doing this for the graciousness of it so I suspect some kind of pressure to their pocketbook is coming from somewhere. Would love to know what it is.


CNN Says It Overplayed Dean's Iowa Scream
Media Aired Iowa Exclamation 633 Times in the Four Days After it Was Made
By DAVID BAUDER, AP

NEW YORK (Feb. 8) - It probably means little now to Howard Dean, but CNN's top executive believes his network overplayed the infamous clip of Dean's ''scream'' after the Iowa caucuses.



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Howard Dean addresses supporters.

''It was a big story, but the challenge in a 24-hour news network is that you try to keep all of your different viewers throughout the day informed without overdoing it,'' said Princell Hair, CNN's general manager.

The breathtaking media explosion turned the former Democratic presidential front-runner into a punch line and arguably hastened his campaign's free fall. It's also an instructive look at how television news and entertainment works today.

Whatever handwringing there may be in retrospect - and there's only a little - comes with a sense that repeats are inevitable.

''It was unfair,'' said Joe Trippi, Dean's former campaign manager, who lost his job in the fallout. ''It was totally unfair. I don't think there was any question about it.''



·Trippi accepts that the footage was newsworthy, but he figured it was a one-day story.

Instead, the cable and broadcast news networks aired Dean's Iowa exclamation 633 times - and that doesn't include local news or talk shows - in the four days after it was made, according to the Hotline, a Washington-based newsletter.

''It shouldn't be an anvil that you keep hammering


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forgot the link "I will be back"

[fearnobush]

1. CNN has gone right winger for the most part.

I think the air Bush's "Ribs Anyone" with no tips embarrasment once or twice.

[bigwillq]

2. Overplayed??

Ya think??!!

[cosmicdot]

3. but, what about any damage to Dr. Dean's campaign?

oops??? :shrug:

heck, passing by the TV, I saw CBS still talking about the Super Bowl incident (Ed Bradley ... 60 minutes, perhaps?)

... geez ...


Rome is burning for crying out loud. I feel like I'm living in South Park.

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