[mhking]

NO ONE IS showing this (~7:15 EST) - FoxNews, MSNBC, CNN, C-Span and every other broadcast news network chooses not to show the American people this historic first press conference w/ the reconstruction team in Baghdad.

FNC ran with it for about 15 mins; then bailed.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

I'm back....thanks for the kind words. (^:

Michael, I don't usually list the station carrying the briefing. Did today for the record - Carolina expressed it well in #188. I started w/FoxNews - noted that they broke away early (~ 10 minutes into the briefing), when both CNN (Jay Garner's mike wasn't working) and MSNBC still carried it for the next few minutes.

As FoxNews was the ONLY news network (+ C-Span 2) carrying the daily CENTCOM briefings, I inferred that they understood the importance of these briefings and trusted their viewers to hear the first source news for themselves without it being filtered through pundits. I was disappointed that they chose not to air the whole conference this morning.

C-Span - who knows what they're up to...not airing the most important current on the ground news briefings from Iraq live.

William La Jeunesse on FoxNews did a great job with the recap:

FN: William La Jeunesse: "For all intents and purposes, director of ORHA, Jay Garner, IS the government of Iraq."

 

Jay Garner: "The spirit of freedom is lit in Iraq." "The rest of Iraq has been in a dark room with no light for 35 years . Two weeks ago we opened the door to the sunlight and they can't see yet."

 

Humanitarian aid...surprisingly good shape...farms are working...aid coming in...1000 Iraqi residents are now working for $2-$5 dollars a day working for reconstruction.

 

Interim gov (Jay Garner in charge) for 3-6 months, then bridge gov., then Iraqi people will run Iraq...hopefully within a year or two.

Official transcript of the briefing should be posted here later today: http://www.centcom.mil/