Bohrman still is often criticized, because the CNN political team choose the videos for the RubeTube debate and other incrediably stupid journalistic decisions.
By Neil Vigdor
Greenwich Time Staff Writer
David Bohrman gets paid to make the big decisions at CNN.
When the curtain rises on the Democratic National Convention later this month, the 54-year-old Cos Cob resident will have a huge say in how much coverage presumptive presidential nominee and media darling Barack Obama gets from the network that pioneered the nonstop cycle of news coverage.
A few months ago, when the fate of the Indiana primary between Obama and rival Hillary Rodham Clinton hung in the balance, it was Bohrman to whom CNN anchors turned to make the call.
"I'm the one who tells Wolf, 'Hey out of the break we're going to call (Indiana). I'm sort of the final decider in the chain," said Bohrman, CNN's Washington, D.C. bureau chief of nearly five years and a senior vice president of the network....
...."We try to cover both candidates the same way," Bohrman said, cautioning, "Now, not every day is going to be the same."
Bohrman's comments come after a number of media critics questioned the decision by some other networks to send their anchors to Berlin last month to interview Obama during his historic visit there.
"We approached McCain's trip to Europe and the Middle East thesame way as we did Obama's," Bohrman said....
..."Both candidates are getting an awful lot of coverage. We're trying very hard to offer up large chunks on both of the candidates,".......Bohrman has already traveled to both convention cities to scope out the venues and logistics for the network's wall-to-wall coverage.
In Denver, the decision to move Obama's speech accepting the nomination from the indoor Pepsi Center arena outdoors to Invesco Field at Mile High, the home of the football Broncos, sent many executives at competing networks scrambling, Bohrman said.
"Well, now your control room is an irrelevant parkin lot," Bohrman said....
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Tobin: "Lets go to the election map."
Bimbo: "Is Canada on that?"
Tobin: "Ahhh, no."
Tobin; "You can write in red or in green.".....
Bimbo: "Can I write my name on it."
Back to the Greenwich Time's glowing report
about how wonderful
David "I don't trust my viewers" Bohrman is....
...Bohrman stumbled upon the gizmo about two years ago at a trade show, bought one for the DC bureau and debuted the "magic wall" in December 2007. The wall allows anchors and reporters to zoom in on different states, counties and cities to show voting results and demographics.
"It's just a great tool for illustrating an explanation. Here's why we can't call Indiana," Bohrman said. "We're going to take it to the conventions with us. It'll be a main part of our November election coverage."....
....Bohrman said he and Jonathan Klein, president of CNN/U.S., had been wrestling with how to incorporate new media into the network's political coverage since the 2006 mid-term elections. At the same time, he said, Eric Schmidt, the CEO of YouTube parent Google, offered up his company's resources to the network.
"It's not often that you can get asked what can Google do for you?" Bohrman said. "I had this sort of crazy idea, 'Well, maybe all the questions could come from YouTube, the people.'" Bohrman said. "We both quickly determined that this was a perfect match."
With YouTube acting as a clearinghouse, Bohrman said the network received 5,000 to 6,000 video submissions that were winnowed to about 100 clips of about 30 seconds that CNN could draw from during its Democratic debate in July 2007. About 9,000 submissions were received prior to a Republican debate in November....
.....Through the years, the oddities and memories of many conventions are still vivid for Bohrman.
"I was at the Bill Clinton speech that took nine hours," he said, as he adjusted his Clinton News Network name tag.
David "My Shrinking Number Of Viewers Are
Idiots" Bohrman is such a name droper in this
Greenwich Time puff piece....
...As a Washington bureau chief for CNN and former NBC producer, he got to know perhaps the most popular DC bureau chief in television, Tim Russert, the longtime "Meet the Press" moderator who died of a heart attack in June. He also knew Tony Snow, the former White House press secretary and Fox News Channel broadcaster, who had signed on to work for CNN as a commentator for the upcoming election before died of colon cancer in July.
Please Read The Full Greenwich Time Puff Piece
Greenwich Time Staff writer
It only took a moment for 17-year-old Cori Lantz's life to change forever. She and her boyfriend Dan Maymin, 18, were driving in a dark red Jeep Cherokee Sport on the Post Road in Cos Cob early one evening last February, when they collided with another car, part of a four car accident that left Lantz with a spinal cord injury that has paralyzed her from the waist down.
By Tommy Hine
Special Correspondent
BEIJING - Connecticut captured its first win in the 2008 Olympics on Saturday, but the Gold Coast can't claim credit for this silver medal.
Michelle Guerette of Bristol hit the waters in Beijing on Saturday determined to row her "best race ever" in the women's single sculls. After the first 1,000 meters, she was in fifth place, her final placement in Athens four years ago.
For Greenwich's Winklevoss twins, though, there was no sprint in the last split, no miracle near the end, no drama at the finish.
For the fourth straight race, the twins were last after 250 meters in the repecharge race. Unlike their two previous races, though, they were still last at the finish this time.
To the Greenwich Time editor:
I am writing in response to TV and news reports on unequal educational disparities within communities. Having two children who attend Hamilton Avenue School, I have always been aware of differences just a zip code away, but it has never been as evident as it stands today. With the new Hamilton Avenue building inching closer to getting a temporary certificate of occupancy (we are getting anxious over a TCO only), I am amazed at what people are considering putting our children into. "Good Enough" has been the motto of the town, the Board of Education, the school administration, and, sad to say, even some of the Hamilton Avenue parents.
We have become this community that has fallen into the trap of feeling as though "good enough" is enough. Is a tree growing in the chimney of the new building, broken windows, structural cracks in the parking garage, mixing of old windows and new windows, old front steps mixed with new front steps "good enough" for our children? I say "No."
And for $31 million-plus we should all be saying "No"! I offer anyone to take a picture of Old Greenwich School's front steps and then take a picture of Hamilton Avenues' new front steps. Come back and tell me if there are no disparities and tell me we are not settling for less!
This school board, these town officials and school administrators are setting the bar at unacceptable levels and the students are meeting that level (testing scores are proving this). Every action these people take sends us a clear and direct message: "You are not worth it!"
When Hamilton Avenue students walk on those front steps to enter their new state of the art building, they will loudly get the message, "You are not worth it!"
I'm here to remind everyone that our kids are worth it and we need to insist that our building reflects that to our children so that they can go to their school with pride. I demand that the town officials and school board raise the bar to the same standards for all the other children in our town because I whole-heartedly believe that if we raise that bar, our kids will not only meet it, but exceed it!
Mina Bibeault
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