"Shaping" the Battlefield, er. the news....

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Joseph C. Pistritto" <jcp () jcphome com>
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 14:10:10 -0700
To: "John K. Doyle, Jr." <jkd () cyberspace org>
Cc: jvp () jcphome com, dave () farber net
Subject: "Shaping" the Battlefield, er. the news....

This is great.

I'm listening live to the satellite link from the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad
here and...

Lara Logan was doing her closing lines (over and over again) her line was
initially that the city wasn't secure yet and that although people were
celebrating the end of the Iraqi regime that they wouldn't want foreigners
in their country for long. (I dont have the exact quote) but very much that
flow.

So then she got into an argument (over the satellite link that i could hear
one side of) with New York via London (where the link goes) that the spin
wasn't postive enough.   So some choice words after about 3 different tries,
it got changed to...

"While the capital is not yet secure, and Iraqis may not want foreigners in
their country for long, on this day Baghdad was a city with hope that the
futuer would be better than the past.  Lara Logan, CBS News, Baghdad"

You'll probably hear that last line on the news in an hour or so...

  -jcp-

PS: by the way she speaks fluent Arabic, she's doing it now (to someone
nearby)


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