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Sunday, January 18, 2004 The Morning Shows: Caucus Day
Try to follow along. John Kerry will appear on Today, Good Morning America, and the Early Show tomorrow. Dick Gephardt will be interviewed on Today, GMA, American Morning, and Fox & Friends. John Edwards will appear on Today, GMA, and AM. No word on Howard Dean's plans for the 7am hour... 9:31:38 PM Dean: "All [O'Reilly] does is shouts at his guests"
Overheard on C-SPAN as Dr. Dean shook hands and signed autographs: "Will you go on O'Reilly?," one man asked. "No, because all he does is shouts at his guests," Dean responded. Crosstalk ensued, then the man asked: "Are you afraid of him, governor?" "Nah," Dean said, then the crowd drowned him out again. C-SPAN has been airing live campaign events all day -- it's great TV. 7:09:30 PM Pre-Caucus Notes from the Campaign Trail
CNN went live to their competitor's bus today! Mark Halperin appeared on Reliable Sources from one of ABC's buses. // Poor Gephardt -- his taped interview was cut off in mid-sentence during Late Edition for a Carter/Dean presser. // This TVHeads poster has been dissapointed by MSNBC's lack of coverage this weekend, and this TVSpy'er said the same thing about FOX... (Updated, Buchanan reference removed, 11:46pm) 7:07:07 PM Caucus Coverage: Fox News Channel
Sunday night, Brit Hume hosts a special report at 9pm. On Monday, Brit Hume will host a special report from 8 to 10pm. He will anchor from the Iowa Statehouse Rotunda. At 10, Hannity & Colmes will debate the results, and at 11, Greta Van Susteren will wrap up the coverage. Repeats will start at midnight. (Updated 9:04pm) 6:27:56 PM Caucus Coverage: CNN
This weekend, The Capital Gang, Late Edition, Inside Politics Sunday, and CNN Presents are airing live from Iowa. On Monday, Bill Hemmer will report from Des Moines on American Morning. Anderson Cooper will preview the night at 7, then Wolf Blitzer will anchor at 8; Larry King will interrupt at 9, then back to Wolf in Des Moines until midnight. Larry King will be live again at midnight. Notably, there will be no sign of Paula Zahn or Aaron Brown that night -- Blitzer will be the lone anchor, I hear. 6:27:34 PM Quote of the day
From Saturday's Des Moines Register, describing tomorrow night's Iowa caucus: "It's been compared to planning a wedding for 100,000 people that's going to be nationally broadcast." (Ben Foecke, Iowa Democratic party caucus director) 6:20:09 PM Robert Novak, ESPN, 3:00am, and the Marriott
Ellen Warren also passes along this "blogalicious" tip: "Whatever you do, make sure they do NOT give you a room next to Novak," a source told her, referring to the CNN commentator. "Novak had SportsCenter on at top volume until midnight. Then he turned it back on and blasted me awake at three in the morning!" 2:41:02 PM 1,300 Journalists Descend on Iowa
In a campaign diary, the Chicago Tribune's Ellen Warren says the caucus are Extreme Journalism: "an every-four-years class reunion for political reporters." She says that the Democratic party estimates 1,300 journalists are in the state, from 30 states and 15 countries. "Do the math. That's one media type for every 100 or so of the 100,000-120,000 Iowans predicted to vote in the caucuses." 2:40:11 PM New Polling Process to Debut Tomorrow
David Bauder previews Iowa caucus coverage in this AP piece. "For TV news organizations, this represents the first test of a new polling and vote-counting system," he says. "Caution is the watchword," Tim Russert says. He has another whiteboard this year... 12:41:19 PM Will The Media Rush to Report Entrance Poll Data?
Reliable Sources also discussed the Democrats' request to hold off on reporting entrance poll data. CBS's Byron Pitts' reasoning for why the networks haven't agreed yet? "It is a very competitive environment." This will be a less of a problem tomorrow, but: "The news networks know the results, and then they have this wink, 'we don't know what's going on,' but then all their conversations are geared to the fact that they know what's going on," Jonah Goldberg lamented. 12:33:21 PM "The press spectacularly underestimated Howard Dean"
Under the title "Poll-Crazed Press," Reliable Sources discussed the expectations game ahead of the Iowa caucus. ABC's Mark Halperin called it insane -- "it's allowing a very small number of political journalists to decide what the results mean." Halperin named two errors the press has made with Dean: "I don't think we scrutizined him enough in the early part of the year...and I think over the last month...we've given him an incredibly disproportionate amount of scrutiny. That's played too decisive a role here at the end." 12:32:41 PM When The 'News Alerts' Hit Home
A compelling must-read in the St. Petersburg Times this morning: the story of a Texas town, pop. 932, where 11 young men are serving in Iraq. The writer describes a family hearing of a mortar attack on FOX News. Then the phone starts ringing. Then another morning, another mother. “Mrs. Henry is a wreck, transfixed by her TV and tied to her telephone, in case something happens. When the Army doesn't call or come, friends and families can only assume their boys are safe.” Powerful. 11:25:46 AM Fears of "all commentary, all the time"
The EIC of the Daily Telegram (Adrian, Michigan) says he hopes “other networks don't follow O'Reilly's lead.” Dave Clark has qualms with the direction journo may be going: “All commentary, all the time would be the biggest mistake of all. That's not news. That's the difference between the news and ‘The Daily Show.’” Here’s his commentary. 11:24:14 AM Up Next: New Hampshire
The Boston Globe previews preparations at the Bedford Village Inn, where television cameras plant themselves during the NH primary. Carl Cameron says the waterfall outside the inn is great for live shots. Candy Crowley says “there's something about [N.H.] that says democracy." 11:10:14 AM ! CableNewser 'Questioner:' Covering the Caucus
CableNewser’s second ‘Questioner’ discusses the Iowa caucus with Dave Busiek, the news director at KCCI-TV in Des Moines. Busiek is the past chairman of of the Radio-Television News Directors Association. The caucus is “a big story for us...the eyes of the nation are watching,” he says. On the national media’s sudden attention: “We're all reporters, so we understand what it's like to parachute into a community and try to do a good job summarizing the events surrounding a big story.” Read the full Q&A.; 12:38:01 AM Naming Names: Journos' Political Contributions
Howie Kurtz has the front page of the Washington Post in Sunday editions: “More than 100 journalists and executives at major media companies...have made political contributions in recent years.” He says some of the donations violate their employers’ policies, but the policies vary widely; Kurtz lists names and prices. Notable: $1000 from Cavuto to Bush; an ABC correspondent donated to Democrats. Wow, give the left and right more fuel for their bias fire... It’s a must-read. 12:34:44 AM |
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