If its on Drudge, it must be true. Right?
Oh, and the White House getting a big block of time to push something is very old. Kennedy's White House had 3 networks simultaneously (ABC later) and 75% of the audience. ABC will be lucky to get a tiny fraction of that: http://www.museum.tv...ew/tourofthew.htm
On the night of 14 February 1962 three out of four television viewers tuned to CBS or NBC to watch a A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy. Four nights later, ABC rebroadcast the program to a sizable national audience before it then moved on to syndication in more than fifty countries around the globe. In all, it was estimated that hundreds of millions of people saw the program, making it the most widely viewed documentary during the genre's so called golden age. But the White House tour is also notable because it marked a shift in network news strategies, since it was the first primetime documentary to explicitly court a female audience.
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Consequently, Jacqueline Kennedy's campaign to redecorate the White House with authentic furnishings and period pieces drew extensive coverage. Taking the lead in fundraising and planning, she achieved her goals in a little over a year and, as the project neared completion, she acceded to requests from the networks for a televised tour of the residence. It was agreed that CBS producer Perry Wolff, Hollywood feature film director Franklin Schaffner, and CBS correspondent Charles Collingwood would play leading roles in organizing the program, but that the three networks would share the costs and each would be allowed to broadcast the finished documentary. The weekend before the videotaping, nine tons of equipment were put in place by 54 technicians and cutaway segments were taped in advance. Jacqueline Kennedy's parts were recorded during an eight hour session on Monday.
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I guess finding real issues about which to confront Obama's administration is too much work for the right wing "news" these days, so they have to manufacture these false outrages... Barack must be smiling though, since this "ethical firestorm" surely increases interest in it.
Cheers,
Scott.