So that blurry TV address wasn’t just me
I thought either my cable or my eyes were going but Brian Stelter’s newsletter explains why Trump’s news conference was all blurry yesterday:
Sometimes the little details tell you a lot about the big thing. Consider these two details about the U.S. persuasion campaign after Thursday’s drone strike took out the second most powerful leader of Iran.
First, the official Pentagon nighttime statement about the killing of Qasem Soleimani botched the name of the organization he led. The original statement called the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps the “Iranian” Corps. Obama-era State Dept official Wendy Sherman said this was a “small but telling point.”
Second, Trump’s afternoon televised address about the airstrike. It was hastily arranged, nearly 24 hours after the attack took place. The speech was fully scripted, so it obviously took time to write and set up. But the press pool traveling with the president was given very little notice ahead of time. In fact, the reporters and technicians were already at the airport, ready to head to Trump’s rally at an evangelical church in Miami.
Then they were called back to Mar-a-Lago. Many viewers noticed that the live shot of Trump’s address — carried by all the major networks — was blurry and choppy at times, and that’s because the crews had so little time to set up the transmission. It would have been in the White House’s interest to give some advanced notice. These little details raise questions about the big-picture strategy that’s unfolding…
Yes it does.
This is not a professionally run administration. We know they are political amateurs, but I think I expected their show business chops to be little bit better. They literally can’t do anything right.
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