Inside Cable News

June 30, 2007

Laura Ingle and the microphone…

The New York Daily News’ Christina Kinon writes about the guy who tried to steal Laura Ingle’s mic live on the air…

“You never know what’s going to happen with live news, I suppose,” Ingle told the Daily News yesterday. “This guy just busted out of the line, and he grabbed my microphone and ran off.”

Hundreds of people were queued up outside the store to be the first to buy the iPhone, which went on sale at 6 p.m.

“He tried running away, but I think he tripped,” said Ingle. “He actually let go of the microphone when he hit the ground, and [my producer] picked it up and handed it to me and I just turned my back and kept on talking. We had a report to do.”

Unsung heroes?

From an emailer…

Recently CNN’s Cal Perry and Karl Penhaul won the edward r murrow award for “Continuing Coverage: CNN, Coverage of the Middle East Conflict” — they won for their coverage in Tyre, Lebanon. They were the only journalists from any news network in Southern Lebanon for the first five days of the war last summer. Karl Penhaul did a lot of amazing live coverage, Cal Perry wrote four very moving articles — search “cal perry, tyre lebanon” on cnn.com, or the same for Karl Penhaul.

I think it’s really great that they won the award, but I wish more writers and bloggers would acknowledge that it was these two who won the award, and not just CNN. CNN’s coverage is always hit or miss for me, except for a few, reporting out of the middle east, who are almost always on point, and always challenging the norm that is the usual CNN reporting. Karl Penhaul, Michael Ware, Cal Perry, Ben Weideman, Christianne Amanpour are the tops. So I don’t think CNN should get all of the credit.

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Scotland Terrorist Attack…

All the networks have been wall to wall with the terrorist car bomging/attack at Glasgow International Airport. Post your coverage reactions here.

MSNBC was first to end coverage at 7pm after Alex Witt and David Shuster alternated coverage throughout the day.

Fox was the first network with a live reporter from Glasgow. Sky News’ Ronda Dougall was on at 1:15 ET. FNC had Catherine Herridge, Jamie Colby, Greg Jarrett, and Geraldo Rivera anchoring coverage throughout the day. Rivera said that coverage will be live tonight which apparently means that Martha MacCallum’s Princess Diana doc won’t be airing tonight. Bill Hemmer is on his way to London and will be reporting from there tomorrow in a 2 hour Fox News Live at 3pm ET.

CNN was using Sky News for coverage early on since they had no one there at the time. CNN had T.J. Holmes, Melissa Long, and Susan Roesgen were anchoring coverage. On Monday, American Morning will be originating from two locations with Kiran Chetry in New York and John Roberts in the UK.

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Gibson on Ingle/Abrams…

Johnny Dollar has the audio of John Gibson from his radio program talking about the Laura Ingle incident, Bill Moyers on Rupert Murdoch and FNC, and Dan Abrams who he torches over Bill O’Reilly allegedly blaming Chris Benoit’s wife and Jessie Davis for their own deaths…

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