Pool Coverage

I wrote yesterday that Fox would be in control of the feed of the debate tonight and therefore could not be trusted to show Kerry in a fair light. As it turns out, each network will have a choice of various shots.

Fox News is running the “pool” coverage, feeding multiple streams of video to the other networks — and also feeding suspicion in the liberal blogosphere that somehow the choice of images shown would be biased toward Bush — but it’s up to each control room what shots to show.

In the past, the feed that went out was the feed that everybody saw. I guess that’s changed. So, if they play games with the reaction shots, it’s the fault of the particular network, not necessarily FOX.

That’s something we should complain about as well. Keep those phone numbers handy. Work those refs.