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To: kristinn; tgslTakoma

"OOPS FROM CNN A close watcher catches a CNN blooper: At 8 am, Jane Arraf reports a "nightmare" situation at school polling station in Baquba, Sunni area. No Iraqi election commission workers had shown up. But, at 9:15, viewers learn Arraf had just shown up at the wrong school, which was not a polling site. The real polling site was actually open. At 9:30, Arraf reports that she is "now at 'another' polling site. No mea culpa/recognition of previous mistake. Her new polling station is crowded and jubilant."


78 posted on 04/27/2005 6:00:35 PM PDT by deadhead (God Bless Our Troops and Veterans)
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To: deadhead; kristinn
Link to that FR thread.

Link to the only existing CNN Archived election day report from Jane Arraf in Baquba.

Of course it doesn't say a word about Arraf's wrong-way Corrigan moment; but it does have this little tidbit, from Arraf to Wolfie Blitzer..."This, for all of its faults, for all of its chaos, for all of the things that went wrong, that didn't go as planned, was very, very real, Wolf."

Now, this link to CNN's Iraq Election Day Video Log may hold more info on Arraf's errant report; but unless you are a Premium Service subscriber or an AOL Broadband or Road Runner High Speed Online customer, you can't watch the videos to find out.

90 posted on 04/28/2005 7:53:12 AM PDT by tgslTakoma
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