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2004-05-24 Home Front: Politix
Networks won’t air Bush’s primetime speech
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Posted by growler 2004-05-24 12:17:00 PM|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 You know, I wonder what the media reaction would be if the White House put out the word that no one in the Executive Branch was to talk to anyone except Fox News, MSNBC, and the other organizations that covered this speech. We could probably hear the wails from New York all the way out here in San Diego.
Posted by RWV 2004-05-24 12:22:46 PM||   2004-05-24 12:22:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Any bets that if KrasinKerry were to make a "major" foreign policy speech on primetime it would be aired by the "big three"?
Posted by busybody 2004-05-24 12:25:01 PM||   2004-05-24 12:25:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Any bets that if KrashinKerry were to make a "major" foreign policy speech on primetime it would be aired by the "big three"?
Posted by busybody 2004-05-24 12:25:27 PM||   2004-05-24 12:25:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 The White House did not ask for network time as this is not considered a major policy speech. When requested, the president is given network time, everytime he asks.
Posted by TomAnon 2004-05-24 12:27:27 PM||   2004-05-24 12:27:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm with you, growler. every president in my memory has had EVERY "prime" time speech televised on the major networks, and this goes back to the days where they REALLY lost money because the networks were the only game in town.

These jack-off networks choosing to change 50 years worth of policy during an election year in a time of WAR is despicable and a clear indication of which way their politics lean. I am disappointed with Fox especially.
Posted by Chris W.  2004-05-24 12:32:04 PM||   2004-05-24 12:32:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Lookin' at the way he was banged up when he fell, the President is probably just as happy that is isn't getting a lot of TV time. It will be carried by lots of radio stations, and as long as the word gets out, that's what is important.
Posted by BigEd 2004-05-24 12:52:32 PM||   2004-05-24 12:52:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 It is the first of 6 speeched between now and the hand off. I can actually live with the fact that it is not interupting the revenue producing May sweeps period. It maybe will take up more media space this way than an actual broadcast anyway since the papers and network news will be forced to comment on the content, instead of pointing out the POTUS speaking flaws.
I won't "misundersetimate" that there is a method behind this set of speechs.
Wouldn't it be sweet if he had a bombshell to drop and the networks were too busy covering contestants eating goat entrails?
Posted by Capsu78 2004-05-24 1:06:09 PM||   2004-05-24 1:06:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 hmmm. im have to agree with you peples. it wuld be diffrent if it were american idol tho.
Posted by muck4doo 2004-05-24 1:11:26 PM|| [http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]  2004-05-24 1:11:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Capsu78 - Goat Entrails? I thought that was used for haggis? Anybody Scottish out there? If not raw, and properly spiced, may not be that bad.
Posted by BigEd 2004-05-24 1:43:06 PM||   2004-05-24 1:43:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 The White House did not ask for network time as this is not considered a major policy speech. When requested, the president is given network time, everytime he asks.

God forbid the networks should actually cover something without being asked.

BigEd -- sheep. Haggis is made with sheep.
Posted by Robert Crawford  2004-05-24 1:43:57 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com]  2004-05-24 1:43:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Wouldn't it be sweet if he had a bombshell to drop and the networks were too busy covering contestants eating goat entrails?

During the President's speech :
. . . and my fellow Americans, I am announcing that we have captured and killed Abu Mussab al-Zakawi. We have removed al-Zakawi's head, pickled it, and sent it to the idiot father of Nick Berg.
Posted by BigEd 2004-05-24 1:55:47 PM||   2004-05-24 1:55:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 BigEd---That one #11 belongs in the "Classic Wish it were True Collection!!!"
Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-05-24 3:03:53 PM||   2004-05-24 3:03:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Even if the networks carried the speech nobody with a brain would be watching ABC, CBS or NBC. And their programing is so poor these days that even the sheep will be watching Sienfeld reruns on UHF during that time slot anyway.
Posted by Lucky 2004-05-24 3:14:19 PM||   2004-05-24 3:14:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Haggis is made from sheep offal, specifically the heart, lungs, and liver.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2004-05-24 4:20:21 PM||   2004-05-24 4:20:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Lucky: UHF??? I vaguely remember a circular antenna for those "fringe" broadcast channels LOL
Posted by Frank G  2004-05-24 4:29:34 PM||   2004-05-24 4:29:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Of course wouldn't it be interesting if the networks and their affiliates had renewal problems next time their licsence was up
Posted by cheaderhead 2004-05-24 5:15:02 PM||   2004-05-24 5:15:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 And now for our regularly scheduled programming - Heidi.

[that ought to date a few of us!]
Posted by Don 2004-05-24 7:56:19 PM||   2004-05-24 7:56:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Here in Texas, the local Scots community make haggis from the entrails of the famous Texas mastodon.
What?
You didn't know Texas had living mastodons? Sure, big herd of 'em down near Abilene, cloned from an ice-age left-over some starving Russkies dug up in Siberia. We traded a crew-cab Ford and two sides of beef for the embryos, then raised the calves at the A&M stock farm.

Takes a lot of mesquite to roast one whole, but we got that too.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-05-24 8:17:04 PM||   2004-05-24 8:17:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 But if a self-proclaimed Al-Q 'spokesman' farts in the wind its frontpage news on 'Good Morning We HATE America' for a week.
Posted by CrazyFool  2004-05-24 9:51:10 PM||   2004-05-24 9:51:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 posted a link to the actual text, caught via powerline
Posted by Frank G  2004-05-24 10:11:17 PM||   2004-05-24 10:11:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Chicago broadcast network affiliates during the speech:
CBS - craptastic reality show
NBC - craptastic sitcom
ABC - movie of the week - A Beautiful Mind
PBS - Had the speech (at least in Chicago)
Fox broadcast - a really, REALLY execrable 'reality' show

There must be an extremely high wall between the Fox broadcast network division and FoxNews.
Posted by eLarson 2004-05-24 10:40:07 PM||   2004-05-24 10:40:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Edward R. Murrow is spinning in his grave.

Hell, old Ed's probably been rotating on his horizontal axis now since the first Rangers parachuted into Osama's backyard. Even then, the fifth-column quisling traitor scumbags in the media were screeching the "Vietnam Quagmire" meme every chance they got. The bastards abandoned Murrow's tradition long ago...now their model is Walter Duranty, the NYT lowlife from the 1930's and 1940's who won a Pulitzer Prize for his decade of work as Stalin's biggest American propagandist.
Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2004-05-24 11:42:07 PM||   2004-05-24 11:42:07 PM|| Front Page Top

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