U.S. Plans to Offer Official Coverage of Iraq Directly to Viewers
finally... from the
NY Times (hat tip
Instapundit)
bq. For months administration officials have complained that they are not penetrating the news media "filter" to inform the American public about their progress in Iraq. The arrest of Saddam Hussein was a sorely needed spike in generally dismal dispatches, they said.
bq. But now, live from a television station near you: the good news.
bq. Or so hopes the Pentagon, which is making briefings from the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq directly available — sometimes free, sometimes for a fee — to network affiliates, cable stations and government agencies, bypassing the likes of Tom and Dan and Peter.
Posted by DaveH at December 19, 2003 3:10 PM