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Second-Day Lede
Monday, May 17, 2004
  Missed connections

If the press corps were a basketball team, they'd be stepping all over each other on the court, unaware that the ball had bounced out into the parking lot. Here are some of the connections they've missed lately:

Missed connection #1:

We told you about it in January.

We didn't know until we saw it on 60 Minutes II.


How could that be? They told us all about something they hadn't heard about themselves. But what did enquiring reporters want to know on yesterday's Sunday talk shows? "Has Rumsfeld had it with the media?"

Missed connection #2:

The 50th anniversary today of the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling that "separate but equal" is an oxymoron.

The beginning of court-sanctioned government-approved same-sex marriages today in Massachussetts.

One reporter got that connection, and wrote about eloquently in an op-ed piece published today in The New York Times.

Mr. Bush didn't see the connection: he practically took credit for the Brown v. Board decision today, while calling for separate-but-equal in that discriminatory constitutional amendment he's pushing for.

Missed connection #3:

Colin Powell was in the middle of answering Tim Russert's question yesterday on "NBC's Meet the Press" when this happened:

Russert: Finally, Mr. Secretary, in February of 2003, you placed your enormous personal credibility before the United Nations and laid out a case against Saddam Hussein citing...

Powell: Not off.

Emily: No. They can't use it. They're editing it. They (unintelligible).

Powell: He's still asking me questions. Tim.

Emily: He was not...

Powell: Tim, I'm sorry, I lost you.

Russert: I'm right here, Mr. Secretary. I would hope they would put you back on camera. I don't know who did that.

Powell: We really...

Russert: I think that was one of your staff, Mr. Secretary. I don't think that's appropriate.

Powell: Emily, get out of the way.

Emily: OK.

Powell: Bring the camera back, please. I think we're back on, Tim. Go ahead with your last question.

Russert: Thank you very much, sir. In February of 2003, you put your enormous personal reputation on the line before the United Nations and said that you had solid sources for the case against Saddam Hussein. It now appears that an agent called Curveball had misled the CIA by suggesting that Saddam had trucks and trains that were delivering biological and chemical weapons. How concerned are you that some of the information you shared with the world is now inaccurate and discredited?


"Emily" is apparently Sec. Powell's press aide.

Missed connection #4:

This one's a local story in the blogosphere. Blogware provider Movable Type announced it would be charging for what was previously free almost immediately after Blogger irritated some of its users with a redesign that giveth as it taketh away. If Movable Type had waited a few weeks, they might have picked up some Blogger emigrants before they announced their new pricing plan.
 
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