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BIN LADEN'S DEATH: HOW DID YOU FIND OUT?

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EdTheEngineer

I was watching CBS but monitoring news on... Twitter!

I flipped on WBEN. Nothing yet, but I expect national news coverage to break in any minute now and maybe Bauerle to show up and do a few hours of talk for local reaction?

I would LOVE to see WECK jump on this and interrupt the live ghost show on until midnight with Brad Riter and Nick Mendola (or at least one of them) talking about this and taking phone calls for an hour or two.
 
I think CBSNews.com may have reported it first. That's where I saw it first. Blitzer on CNN was hinting it for a while, but didn't want to take away the President's thunder. Then as the news leaked out, and the President was delayed, everyone went with it in one big deluge. Then the broadcast networks broke into programming.

But I was tracking CNN, NBC, ABC, and Fox, and of those four services, CBS had it first...by what appeared to me to be several minutes.

So who did Trump end up firing? John Rich is just rejoicing on his Twitter page about Osama. No hint from him about what happened, although he suggested it was an episode worth watching. If it sounds like I have lots of media available at the same time, you're right.
 
i heard it on the billy cunningham show on WIBC-FM.first that there was a presidental announcment and what it basically was about before the president came to the press and people.
 
Television. CBS. Surfing. Today could be a huge day for radio listening. It may have a pronounced effect on the ongoing Spring book. NPR and news-talk radio in particular should get huge shares. President Obama might even get some love from WBEN. Cheers to the Navy Seals, the CIA and every person involved in the operation. May 1st was a triumphant day, but it cannot overshadow 9-11-01.
 
Watching Celebrity Apprentice when NBC broke in...switched back & forth between NBC and Fox where Geraldo was covering the action. Wife was following Facebook on her Blackberry while watching TV.
 
Listening to Beth & Chet on WHAM @ 5:00 this morning.
 
Woke up in the middle of the night and flipped on WBEN for a few minutes and heard Tom Connolly's local newcast and then the national story that ran right after that.
 
For some reason I just ddon't have that "where were you when ou heard" curiosity about this.

Maybe it's because I never viewed Bin Laden's eventual demise as anything substantial in the war on terror. The snake already has a new head.
 
Was in bed before the announcement so learned at 5:50 this morning via WXXI and Morning Edition.

The clock radio clicked on in the middle of a sentence, so at first I thought they had gotten Khadafi, based on the developments in Libya over the weekend.
 
Read on Twitter that the President had an announcement and then Keith Urbahn, former chief of staff for DOHS under Rumsfeld, spilled the beans on Twitter. Watched CNN til 2 a.m., got up and did the same.
 
Spinning the TV dial, landed on CNN just as the news was breaking Sunday night. Turns out it had all gone down hours before, but TPTB at the White House thought they had to cross all the Ts and dot all the Is to make sure the ID was right (it was) and the statement touched all the bases and made all the necessary political and policy points while stopping short of an outright gloat (apparently even Limbaugh thought it did). So the rumor mill ground, we waited until 11:30 for official word from the Prez while the story gradually oozed out.
 
Interesting interview with Brian Williams last night on Letterman. He says he was given the scoop directly from the White House hours before the scheduled speech on the provision that he didn't tell anyone. I think he may have been the only one who got that treatment. Wolf Blitzer didn't get it that way. It takes a lot to get a big network anchor to drive into NY on a Sunday night.
 
Brian Williams is a class act.

On a related note, happy to hear that Scott Pelley from 60 Minutes is going to take over for Katie Couric. He's not flashy and doesn't have movie star good looks, but he's a true newsman. Good choice for her replacement.
 
It was all over Facebook. Then I Googled bin Laden and got the story on line. I very rarely go to radio or TV any more for breaking news.
 
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