Re: We Interrupt This Impeachment Hearing To Bring You A Press Conference!

[Larry Weil <kc1ih@mediaone.net>]

At 10:44 AM -0800 11/19/98, Joseph Gallant wrote:
>At 11:27 A.M. (aprox.) this morning (Thursday, November 19th), a
>press conference was being held in Hartford to announce the move of
>the New England Patriots there starting in September, 2001.
>At the same time, special prosecutor Ken Starr was testifying in
>a televised hearing of the House Judiciary Committee.
>Here's how Boston and Providence TV stations reacted:
>Channels 4 and 7 in Boston and 10 and 12 in Providence broke away from
>the impeachment hearing for about 15 minutes to carry the press
>conference live. Channel 5 in Boston and Channel 6 in New Bedford
>didn't break away from the hearing, instead running a crawl on the
>bottom of the screen.

So, the viewers had a choice.  Those interested in the hearing still had it
available to them, while those more interested in the press conference
could watch it instead.

I'm sure it wasn't planned that way, but since it did work out in a way
that gave the viewers a choice, what is wrong with that??

Larry Weil
Lake Wobegone, NH

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