Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 16:30:36 -0400
To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
From: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
Subject: White House- People have to watch what they say
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Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 03:59:40 -0400
From: Paul Spirito <berezina@nihidyll.com>
Subject: "a transcription error"
Organization: Nihidyll

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/28/business/media/28TUBE.html

 [...]

 On Wednesday, Ari Fleischer, the White House press
 secretary, denounced Mr. Maher, saying of news
 organizations, and all Americans, that in times like these
 "people have to watch what they say and watch what they do."

 When the White House later released the official transcript
 of Mr. Fleischer's briefing, the portion of his comments
 urging people to "watch what they say" was not included.
 When that sparked yet another round of discussion over Mr.
 Fleischer's comments, Anne Womack, an assistant to Mr.
 Fleischer, said yesterday that the transcript did vary from
 the remarks Mr. Fleischer made. She called it "a
 transcription error."

 [...]

 In a more subtle reaction to a break with the unified front,
 correspondents for newspapers and television networks said
 administration officials stopped returning their phone calls
 for a time after they expressed skepticism about the White
 House assertion that Air Force One had been threatened by
 terrorists. That story was challenged in several news
 accounts this week and the White House abruptly stopped
 talking about it.

 The Bush administration's sensitivity about coverage of the
 crisis was also on view this week when the State Department
 spokesman, Richard Boucher, criticized the Voice of America
 for defying State's wishes and broadcasting a report based
 on its interview with Mullah Mohammad Omar, the reclusive
 leader of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia.

 [...]


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