CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
- News time: approximately 24 of 30 minutes reserved
- Advertising/Commercial time: approximately 4 minutes reserved
- Weather: none
- Sports: none
- “Happy Talk”: none
- Lead Story: Church gets political on abortion
-Jack Cafferty (news broadcaster) has opinionated tone and calls one of the writers of a letter a “kook.” Cafferty suggests that the Catholic church is lying about its stance of being pro-choice, because it makes no sense that a Catholic Church can support abortion. - Which stories make news on “The Situation Room”?: Politics and other general interests
- How do the anchors set the tone of the broadcast with her attitude/mannerisms, voice and facial expressions?: Suzanne Malveaux is for the most part objective with her news-telling. The guests, speakers, and other news broadcasters tend to extend their opinions into the stories, however, as Cafferty’s segment usually does.
- STORIES/ADS AIRED IN ORDER:
- Story#1: Church Gets Political on Abortion (3 minutes)
- Story#2: Black Friday; brief commentary on last year’s Wal Mart incident when an employee was trampled by customers. (2 minutes)
- Story#3: White House Dinner; Obama Hosts First State Dinner (6 minutes)
- Commercial: AT&T, Careerbuilder.com (2 minutes total)
- Story#4: Stocks and Home Sales Go Up; Signs of a Growing Economy (3 minutes)
- Story#5: Victims of Massacre at Ft. Hood: mainly Junita Warman (5 minutes)
- Commercial: Boston Market (2 minutes)
- Story#6: Obama’s Gallup Poll Approval Rating is Down 50%; Obama and Palin comparison by journalist Maureen Dowd. (7 minutes)
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