Find the mole in the media!

There's a mole in the media, feeding the goods to Bush's campaign.

Some media channel was taping Kerry's speech and feeding it straight to the war room of the Bush campaign.  Note the second paragraph, especially.  I think the editors & reporters of the Times might be tired of taking sh*t over Judith Miller and want to point out poor practices on the part of TV media.  That's why they put that information so close to the top of the story.  Surely somebody in the Kerry campaign reads dKos--speak up, tell us who had cameras there!  

•  It was probably pooled media and Fox sent their

  feed/access code to BC/04

  by lncolnpk on Wed Jul 14, 2004 at 09:44:53 AM PDT

  •  They might not even have done this much.

    I'm sure there were video and audio feeds being uplinked to satellite, and the press pool probably uses the same or similar channel every time, whether they're Bush events or Kerry events. If you listen to one, you can probably listen to them all, as long as you have a dish and the coordinates.

    by Kagro X on Wed Jul 14, 2004 at 10:16:45 AM PDT

    •  free tv

      Exactly. If you have a dish and the coordinates you can pick up most network shows a day to a few hours before they air as they get sent to their affliates. Some are starting to encrypt but most don't. I have a friend who has about 12 dishes (the old 6 foot kind) and he gets around 400 channels completely free and clear.
      

      by morph on Wed Jul 14, 2004 at 10:30:32 AM PDT

    •  Although if it were the common feed

      Why the following from the the Times piece?

      "Mr. Bush's operatives had somehow arranged for their own audio feed, they refused to say how"

      by Lcohen on Wed Jul 14, 2004 at 10:31:46 AM PDT

      •  If I were a dick...

        and I can neither confirm nor deny that I am, I would describe getting the pool feed in precisely the same manner.

        The real story is boring. This one makes me look cooler, creepier, and more powerful than I really am. And if I'm lucky, it makes Kerry people panic and start beheading members of the press pool, who in turn get pissed off and begin generating even more negative stories than they already do.

        by Kagro X on Wed Jul 14, 2004 at 10:38:09 AM PDT

        •  you're right, Kagro X...

          No point in trying to witch hunt TV media, it'll just drive them further into favoring Republicans.

          by joeltpatterson on Wed Jul 14, 2004 at 11:13:36 AM PDT

          •  Oh my God.

            I have been looking for that subject line all my life.

            Thank you for fulfilling my purpose on Earth!

            by Kagro X on Wed Jul 14, 2004 at 11:34:31 AM PDT