Ford: Coverage wrap-ups 2…
The AP’s David Bauder wraps up coverage for the service for President Gerald Ford…
Former NBC News anchorman Tom Brokaw, who also delivered a eulogy, noted that Ford realized, upon leaving office, that he wasn’t perfect.
“But what president ever was?” he said. The camera cut to a picture of President Bush.
Reality wasn’t far away. Fox News Channel noted that many politicians, as they exited the church, were checking their Blackberrys. CNN switched to other news more quickly than its cable news rivals; Fox trained a respectful camera on an unmoving plane with Ford’s body until it took off for Michigan.
Then Brit Hume uttered his version of the day’s most frequently repeated line, also used by Gibson and Couric.
As Couric said it, Ford “was about to leave the nation’s capital for the very last time.”
It’s times and ‘news’ articles like this one that makes me wonder why in the heck covering news is actually news. And why the heck people care. Watch, get informed…and live.
Comment by Big Dave — January 3, 2007 @ 1:14 am