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Republicans said they were just borrowing tactics that Jesse Jackson and the Democrats perfected years ago and had imported to Florida immediately after the vote, but Jesse's operation was never like this. Organizers with headsets and microphones moved the protesters about, here for a CNN live shot, there to confront a Democratic Congressman, louder here, softer over there, conducting the crowd like a roving symphony orchestra. "The election may have ended, but the campaign hasn't," said New York lawyer Brad Blakeman, a top Bush campaign advanceman now moonlighting as a freedom fighter. "It would be disingenuous...
...nerdishly intense proceedings, riveting in spite of the lack of video, were no less spirited or probing for the presence of microphones. The dearth of pictures did, however, leave the cable news networks that carried the hearing stretching to make the tapes visually dramatic: CNN busied up its screen with a collage including the presidential seal, a picture of tape machine reels, head shots of attorneys and Justices, closed captioning and a live shot of the SCOTUS building; MSNBC added goofy computer-generated animation that zoomed through a digital court building as they tape played, reminding us why the Sony...
...Granted that the networks had to put something on screen, some of the choices were crass enough to mortify the no-cameras-in-the-court purists; CNN's choice to show the courtroom "won-loss" record of lawyers, for instance, was the sort of knee-jerk ballgame mentality that confirms 24-hour news's worst tendencies. But the visuals were beside the point: The verbal back-and-forth itself was not only riveting but a salutary thing for the whole polarized country to hear, even if most of us could understand one out of every three terms...
...Gore camp, realizing that any legal attack on absentee ballots tends not to jibe p.r.-wise with its call for "every vote be counted," has distanced itself from the suit. But Gore himself, pressed Wednesday by CNN's John King, allowed that "if the ballots for one party were illegally changed and fixed, and the ballots from the other party that didn't have that information were rejected and thrown away, that doesn't seem fair...
Editorial director is the second highest editorial position in the company. Walter will work with me to provide overall guidance and strategy for Time Inc.'s magazines. In addition, he will serve as our primary liaison with CNN and, upon completion of its proposed merger with Time Warner, America Online Inc., in which roles he'll explore opportunities for our editorial content on television and online...