Life Inside the Bubble

So there was a so-called "war of words" at the UN Tuesday, built up by the MSM as such, and all three cable news nets carried President Bush's speech live, as they should have.
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So there was a so-called "war of words" at the UN Tuesday, built up by the MSM as such, and all three cable news nets carried President Bush's speech live, as they should have. But (hat tip: TVNewser) only CNN carried the Iranian President's speech live. Worse yet, when I tried to access it on CNN Pipeline, all I got was Tom Foreman's three-minute wraup from AC360, in which Foreman took the liberty of pointing out that when President Ahmadinejad said the IAEA approved his country's nuclear program, he was doing so "wrongly", and that, as he concluded, the speech probably "didn't make him many friends". Was such editorial freedom available to CNN (or other) reporters covering the Bush speech?

Historical note: when Nikita Khrushchev, then Soviet President, spoke to the UN in 1959, Americans had to rely on the three broadcast nets for their TV news. They, then as now primarily in the entertainment business, did cover that speech live, at least one of them did. That's why "we will bury you" became part of the American language.

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