See post 115 for a link to video (though it runs slow due to the no-doubt overloaded servers).
The video report is fair and balanced. The reporter even says the paper is not a conservative paper, but one with a "conservative editorial tradition." Wow...bending over backwards for fairness there. The AP just called it a conservative paper.
Here is the news director's take from the website:
"The video shows a verbal confrontation between Teresa Heinz Kerry and a reporter from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review following remarks Heinz made moments earlier where she spoke about civility and politics. She was trying to point out that some of the harping and positioning going on in the campaign was rough and off the mark. She called some of that "un-American behavior." The reporter heard it, our camera caught it and the reporter was asking Heinz what she meant by the comment. The video, unedited and played longform so you can get a feel for it aired exclusively on WTAE's Action News at 11 p.m. Sunday night. You can watch it here.
Stations around the country will no doubt clamor for it. Controversy makes headlines and headlines sell newspapers and get people interested in the story, something many Americans have not been up until now. Call it ironic that a speech about rough and tumble politics and "un-American behavior" is what grabs the headlines...
Scott and Reporters from WTAE's Washington DC Bureau begin filing stories Sunday night and don't stop until after the balloons drop Thursday. They'll report on the messages and the themes espoused during the week. Scott will also focus on Pittsburgh angles. Thats why he was standing next to Theresa Heinz Sunday, camera rolling. If WTAE had opted out of covering this convention like other stations, you wouldn't see the video of that particular story mentioned earlier."
Until I actually saw her in action, I had no idea she was so thoroughly crazy.
Somebody better call the guys with the nets.