{"id":671,"date":"2004-04-30T09:34:01","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T16:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/04\/scribble_scribble\/"},"modified":"2004-04-30T09:34:01","modified_gmt":"2004-04-30T16:34:01","slug":"scribble_scribble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/04\/scribble_scribble.html","title":{"rendered":"SCRIBBLE, SCRIBBLE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is someone at CNN reading us (and taking notes)? You decide.<\/P>
\n

CNN flashed these words across the tube on Thursday morning: “not under oath,” “no
\nstenographer,” “no transcript,” “no recording.”<\/P>
\n

Straight Up on Wednesday morning in <\nFONT color=#003399>LIP SERVICE<\/FONT><\/EM><\/STRONG><\/A>: “Not under oath. Not
\nin public. No recording. No transcript. Two note takers only.”<\/P>
\n

Both of us were referring, of course, to the ventriloquist and his dummy’s performance for the
\n9\/11 commission.<\/P>
\n

Thanks to Alessandra Stanley,<\/EM><\/FONT><\/STRONG> <\/A>whose TV Watch
\nreports we love, for pointing out CNN’s bulletins. Her eye for detail and her salty comments are
\nalways rewarding.<\/P>
\n

Stanley’s lede this morning:<\/P>
\n

If an important meeting takes place in the Oval Office and there are no
\ntelevision cameras to record it, did the meeting matter?<\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n

And her conclusion:
\n


\n

[T]he nonvisual event was so anathema to television that at one point, the
\nCNN anchor Daryn Kagan said it seemed as if “the event took place in the 18th
\ncentury.”<\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n

<\/P>
\n

By the way, it’s now unclear how many note takers there actually were. Reports have varied.
\nIt turns out that all the commissioners were at least allowed<\/I> to take notes. We don’t
\nknow, however, what they may have scribbled down. “Their notebooks were taken from them<\/FONT><\/EM><\/STRONG><\/A> before
\nthey left the session,” The New York Times reports, “with the White House saying they would be
\nreturned after being reviewed for classified information.”<\/P>
\n

A reminder from yesterday:<\/STRONG> If you want to see the dummy at
\nhis most inarticulate, just go to CNN.com<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> and click the video<\/B> link (on the
\nright) next to the headline “Bush 9\/11 session ‘marvelous’.”<\/B> It’s absolutely hilarious.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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