Thanks for saving me the trouble of posting this, Clam. These right-wing
media bobble heads sure play dirty, don't they?


"clamnebula" wrote in message
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This explains a lot.
-Neb

---Original Message---
From: "Perry L. Adler" homerramone2000@y...
Date: Thu Jan 29, 2004 5:01 pm
Subject: The Dean Scream: The version of reality that we didn't see on TV
http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/news/012...eanscream.html

The Dean Scream: The version of reality that we didn't see on TV
The scream that may not have been

Howard Dean in Iowa
By ABC News/WABC/abc12

New York - It was the scream Howard Dean says became famous after the
media
played it nearly 700 times in a few days. Not only that, his camp adds,
what we
heard on the air was not a reflection of the way it sounded in the room.

After my interview with Dean and his wife in which I played the tape
again -- in
fact played it to them -- I noticed that on that tape he's holding a
hand-held
microphone. One designed to filter out the background noise. It isolates
your
voice, just like it does to Charlie Gibson and me when we have big crowds
in the
morning. The crowds are deafening to us standing there

But the viewer at home hears only our voice.

So, we collected some other tapes from Dean's speech including one from a
documentary filmmaker, tapes that do carry the sound of the crowd, not
just the
microphone he held on stage. We also asked the reporters who were there to
help
us replicate what they experienced in the room.

Reena Singh, ABC News Dean campaign reporter: "What the cameras didn't
capture
was the crowd."

Garance Franke-Ruta, Senior Editor, American Prospect: "As he spoke, the
audience got louder and louder and I found it somewhat difficult to hear
him."

Dean's boisterous countdown of the upcoming primaries as we all heard it
on TV
was isolated, when in fact he was shouting over the roaring crowd.

And what about the scream as we all heard it? In the room, the so-called
scream
couldn't really be heard at all. Again, he was yelling along with the
crowd.

Neal Gabler, Senior Fellow, Lear Center USA: "When you're talking about
visuals,
context is everything. So, you've got a situation in which you have what
I'd
call the televised version of reality, which is not the same as the actual
reality in room. You know in a situation like this, no one takes
responsibility."

How do the networks see it? Here are comments from network executives to
ABC
News:

CBS News: "Individually we may feel okay about our network, but the
cumulative
effect for viewers with 24-hour cable coverage is -- it may have been
overplayed
and, in fact, a disservice to Dean and the viewers." -- Andrew Heyward,
President - CBS News

ABC News: "It's always a danger that we'll use good video too much." --
David
Westin, President - ABC News

CNN: "We've all been wrestling with this. If we had it to do over again,
we'd
probably pull ourselves back." -- Princell Hair, General Manager - CNN

Fox News: "It got overplayed a bit, and the public clearly thought that,
too,
and kept him alive for another round." -- Roger Ailes, Chairman and CEO -
Fox
News


Last Updated: Jan 29, 2004




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