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the world should never forget

a fascinating day in the life of cable news

(07/07/2004; 10:21am) - a fascinating day in the life of cable news

you could almost hear the gears of our massive political machines shift into gear yesterday.
Kerry's camp releases Edwards' name as VP early in the morning. I first catch it when i wake up at about 8.
By 8:30 the GOP website had posted a campaign ad featuring John McCain supporting the President with the suggestion that he was Kerry's "First Choice".
By the afternoon, both sides were scrambling their jets to get the most airtime for their Edwards talking points with all varieties of political operatives and pundits.
It got to such a frenzy, I even checked out FoxNews to see how the sharks were dealing with it. In a tizzy, naturally.

Tough to say how this will end up, but at least yesterday: Kerry won. He controlled the news for a solid day. Even Iraq took a back seat.

-a.