Serious competition for the soap operas?
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The daily combat at the White House briefing has become a television show, and Tony Snow seemed instantly at home behind the podium.
Armed with a decade of experience as a Fox News host, Snow did more than glibly play defense. He seized on opportunities to score rhetorical points for the administration. His sound bites showed up more often on the evening news. He appeared on the morning shows and the cable shows and did plenty of live shots from the White House lawn.
Snow’s combative style is entertaining — he knows how to hold an audience — but also contributed to rising tensions with the press corps.
There you go—sounds like viewer ratings are more important than anything else.
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The daily combat at the White House briefing has become a television show, and Tony Snow seemed instantly at home behind the podium.
Armed with a decade of experience as a Fox News host, Snow did more than glibly play defense. He seized on opportunities to score rhetorical points for the administration. His sound bites showed up more often on the evening news. He appeared on the morning shows and the cable shows and did plenty of live shots from the White House lawn.
Snow’s combative style is entertaining — he knows how to hold an audience — but also contributed to rising tensions with the press corps.
There you go—sounds like viewer ratings are more important than anything else.
Isn’t that what soaps are about?
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