> Brit Hume‘s analysis on FNC: “The White House made quite an effort to get coverage for this event, staging it when they did, having it be an hour length, a full dressed news conference. One sensed that the reason was, in part at least, to bring out Tony Blair…”
> John Roberts‘ review on CNN: “I think it’s pretty obvious, Wolf, that having Tony Blair by his side tonight, doing this in prime time, where he would get a lot more eyes, he really is acknowledging that he needs to get out there; he needs to talk more about Iraq, to try to move those numbers up…”
> FNC went to a live edition of The O’Reilly Factor at 8:30 p.m. Paula Zahn and Wolf Blitzer recapped till 9 p.m. Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann did the same thing on MSNBC until Countdown started at 9…
> Counterprogramming: CNBC stuck with ‘On The Money’ during Bush/Blair…
Bush/Blair Presser: Notes
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