Anyone else miss this incident?
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Anyone else miss this incident?
| Thu, 05-20-2004 - 5:43pm |
Tim Russert needs to learn to control his staff:
"The other day, an intrepid journalist and truth-seeker was grilling a powerful public figure. But before the interview was over, the powerful public figure's press aide abruptly broke in as tape rolled and stopped the interrogation..."

http://messageboards.ivillage.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=iv-elinthenews&msg=6564.1
No, we didn't miss it.
Renee
Sorry.
>""My impression was that he was very tightly scheduled, and had to do five or six interviews one after the other and his people were trying to keep him on schedule ... Eight minutes into the interview, a woman's voice cut in and barked, 'WNYC, you have eight seconds left!' And the interview came to a quick end."
Lehrer added that the glitch was deleted from what sounded, when it was broadcast, like a seamless conversation.
"It was no big deal," Lehrer said, noting that the interrupter was not an NBC News employee. "These things happen. It was just the usual bureaucratic stuff and getting an interview. So we edited it out.""<
This is about nothing & as Leher said, "It was no big deal".
>"But two days later, Secretary of State Powell's press aide, Emily Miller, was so desperate to keep her boss on schedule that she tried to end Russert's taped interview when it ran into overtime. The "Meet the Press" moderator went ballistic.
Not only did Russert castigate Powell's aide on his own NBC show, he gave righteously indignant interviews about "attempted news management gone berserk" to CNN and The Washington Post."<
Castigate: To inflict severe punishment on. To criticize severely.
Judge for yourself how accurate the article you posted is about the Powell/Russert interview.
Below is the complete unedited text...............
>"Russert:
Renee