Comments on: Networks Won’t Air Giuliani and McCain Speeches

By: Attila Girl

Attila Girl — Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:14:22 +0000

"Skedded" was awful, and "competish" was worse.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:37:26 +0000

Tom: Sure. But NBC is only covering three hours of it, 90% of which will be speeches. In 2000, I'm pretty sure they put their "A" team on MSNBC and did a simulcast for the few hours where NBC proper aired coverage.

By: Tom Galvin

Tom Galvin — Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:02:02 +0000

Matthews will anchor the MSNBC coverage, not NBC's. He did the same thing at the Democratic Convention in Boston, from Faneuil Hall. The question is whether his panelists will be as right-leaning as the Boston panel was left-leaning (Ron Reagan Jr, Joe Trippi, Dee Dee Myers, Willie Brown).

Tom Brokaw and Tim Russert will be doing the NBC network duties.

I hate to point out a spelling error but you did it twice - despite the Variety article. It's Giuliani not "Guiliani."

It is a little unfair that the networks won't cover the first night which gives a political party its convention momentum.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:21:02 +0000

What comparable figure of the right is anchoring major network coverage?

And it's Variety. They've been using bizarre shorthand since at least the 1950s--I remember a couple stories like that from the "I Love Lucy" show.

By: legion

legion — Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:11:55 +0000

Yes, Matthews has become a left-wing partisan of late. but I think his presence is entertaining, given the number of right-wing partisan hacks thrown at the Dem convention.

On a completely unrelated note, "skedded"?!? Who the hell decided "skedded" was a real word? This is a news story, not a freaking cell phone text message... jeez.