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(en) US Media Rehearses for War
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"Shawn Ewald" <shawn@wilshire.net>
Date
Mon, 23 Feb 1998 15:05:00 -0700
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From: Jesse Walker <jwalker@cei.org>
Subject: MRN: Not a Hoax
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:50:21 -0500
An Associated Press report, from Saturday's Washington Post:
CBS officials were red-faced yesterday after a practice news report
about a U.S. bombing of Iraq was inadvertently transmitted to television
stations nationwide by satellite. The network said that, to the best of
its knowledge, the test report did not air on any stations.
A technician at a West Virginia station was stunned yesterday afternoon
when he was checking satellite transmissions and found CBS anchor Dan
Rather describing the aircraft used in a bombing run over Baghdad.
"It looked like a real broadcast of what was going on," said Bill
MClure, master control operator at WTAP-TV in Perkersburg, W.Va., an NBC
affiliate. Station officials hurriedly called the Associated Press to
check it out.
Rather and CBS News correspondent David Martin in Washington were
practicing in case U.S.-led forces bomb Iraq, spokeswoman Kerri
Weitzberg said.
The network, which also wanted to test new graphics that would be used
to cover the story, planned to use a fiber optic link that would ensure
the test report would only be seen in New York and Washington newsrooms,
she said. But for 20 minutes, it was mistakenly sent to a satellite,
where it could be picked up by anybody with special receiving equipment
-- usually only TV stations. CBS received "a handful" of phone calls
from confused people, Weitzberg said.
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