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Media Minutiae, TV Networks X Out The Darnedest Things Edition

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  • CNN accidentally broadcasts a huge black “X” over Vice-President Cheney’s face during a televised speech, which subsequently makes Drudge’s day (and, no doubt, lots of people who maybe have unresolved feelings toward the Vice-President). Drudge says “Is someone in Atlanta trying to tell us something?” and writes that “a CNN spokesman did not return repeated calls late Monday night” (aka 9:25 pm ET, the timestamp of his posting); but our own TVNewser got an explanation from CNN less than an hour after Drudge posted (something to do with switchers and secret campaigns against the Vice-President unfortunate timing).
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