Inside Cable News

October 5, 2005

Crooks & Liars….

revisited their entry on last night’s O’Reilly/82nd Airborne massacre to note that the FNC transcript of the show didn’t jibe with what was said…

In FNC’s defense it should be noted that the transcript has an important note at the top…

This is a partial transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” October 3, 2005, that has been edited for clarity.

Greta back in New Orleans…

GretaWire talks today about being back in New Orleans…

(note to FNC webmasters…the pics currently aren’t working)

This trip we stayed in a hotel — not a bus on a dark street — but we can’t brush our teeth with the tap water. The hotel had everything we needed, but services were not the usual big city, big hotel. You could tell the hotel was doing its best to be open and to help those here in New Orleans covering the story or helping to rebuild the city.

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CNN to air special on children who survived hurricanes Katrina and Rita…

CNN announced today that CNN Presents will air a special on children who survived hurricanes Katrina and Rita disasters. The program will premiere this Saturday, October 8th, at 8 pm EST…

Among the numerous stories offered in “Children of the Storm,” CNN Presents follows several New Orleans children to examine how they coped over the past month from surviving a hurricane to experiencing traumatic rescues to living in shelters far from home. The program tells the heart-rending journey of a 6-year-old boy with leukemia from Slidell, La., after Hurricane Katrina disrupts his chemotherapy treatments. The program also looks at how displaced children adjust to new schools with a profile of a high school senior facing a different lifestyle at a private school in Atlanta and a stand-out football player now playing for a different team 400 miles away from home.

In the wake of Hurricane Rita, viewers meet a 9-year-old boy who had an epileptic seizure while his family fled Galveston, Texas. In a look at those who were able to return after the hurricanes, CNN profiles children who started their first day of school in the devastated community of Jefferson Parish, La.

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Miller on Dobbs…

The Hollywood Reporter’s Paul J. Gough writes on Judith Miller’s appearance on Lou Dobbs Tonight… (sub. req.)

New York Times reporter Judith Miller said Tuesday night that she went to federal prison for 85 days to protect the journalists’ practice of confidentiality of sources and for the public’s right to know. In her first longform TV interview, on CNN’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” Miller said she hoped that her experiences would help lead to a federal shield law, which would protect journalists from revealing their sources. “It’s not about us, it’s about the public’s right to know,” Miller said. Dobbs had almost singlehandedly kept Miller’s case in the public eye every weeknight since her incarceration for running afoul of special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald. During the interview at the Midtown Manhattan studios of “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” Miller thanked Dobbs and CNN for keeping watch during the show

The transcript of the interview is here. In my opinion Dobbs softballed the interview and no news was made….

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