* Speech NOT top story on Morning News Shows. . . .

[Shopaholic]

*'s little speech has been bumped down into third-place status on all the morning talk shows on the broadcast networks--Top "honors" went to Hurricane Frances and then the breaking news story about the hostage situation in Russia. They've got to be wringing their hands in the B/C campaign offices about that this morning.

[wurzel]

1. Kerry's speech got hardly any mention.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Funny that a storm named after a country

that he maligned so.... should upstage the bright shiny blip of his "career".

[Xenus Sister]

4. I disagree with that

"Kerry's speech got hardly any mention."

I have 2 Tivos (each can record 2 channels at one time) and had them set for all 3 network morning shows. These are my notes about those shows, the stuff I dubbed off onto videotape. I kept more of GMA than the other two. There was more coverage on CBSES and Today than I dubbed.

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Morning-after convention stuff (July 30, 2004)

(all 3 show the red meat part of Kerry's speech - "...I will appoint an Attorney General who WILL uphold the Constitution of the United States)

= CBS Early Show (Hannah Storm talks to Craig Crawford, disgusting "analysis")
= Today (Katie Couric talks to Tim Russert, Gov. Richardson, Kerry & Edwards before they leave on trip)

= Good Morning America (July 30, 2004)
- Morning-after Kerry speech coverage (other two channels on 2004 DNC4 tape)
- (very good Charlie Gibson overview, mentions the balloons screwup with CNN producer's words )
- Diane Sawyer web chats with people who saw the speech
- commentary with George Stephanopolous
- Bitch Matalan spouting lies
- bit from David Letterman (Bush will share convention stage with drinking buddies)
- Vanessa Kerry's hamster story (wasn't shown on the network the night before)
- bit from Kerry/Edwards send-off (Kerry "they had better intelligence back then...")
- Clair Shipman on Bush camp reaction

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Except for Craig Crawford's bullshit "analysis" (he was sneeringly smug and stupid) and Hannah Storm's bullshit existance, I was happy with the coverage. The "red meat" quotes were front and center, even on CBS.

[meegbear]

2. Same here in Boston ...

watched the 6:30 am newscast. He wasn't mentioned until 6:39.