| We called Ms. King who said CNN legal was still reviewing the matter
to determine if and how CNN could report it. She said she would call back
later to confirm the interview. We asked if the document leak was public.
She said she thought it was not but not sure, CNN had received only a tip
still be checked. We asked if we could make CNN's tip on the leak public.
She said please don't. We asked where she was based. She said Atlanta.
She said her role was to make contacts with potential guests and that a producer
would make final arrangements.
Later, Stephanie LNU, a producer at CNN Atlanta, left a message that the
interview would be scheduled for 5PM and confirmed once a legal determination
was made on coverage.
We called Stephanie who said the session was on. Could she send a car for
travel to the CNN NYC studio? No thanks, subway is faster, we're only a few
stops away from the studio.
We went to the CNN studio at Time Warner Center, Columbus Circle. Lobby security
had no record of our authorization to visit, calls to Atlanta got that fixed,
went to the 5th floor where security made a paper stickum, and a host took
us to the giant work space with a pair of little sidebar studios where three
persons were computer gazing. Waited 15 minutes, wandered around the space
making a covert Flip video of the gadgetry (came out mostly fingers).
A signal came: London was ready. Got miked and earpieced and sat on a high
chair facing a camera and lights, no humans. Five minutes later a British
woman screamed in my ear, can you hear me. Oh, yes, and lowered the volume.
She did not appear on a monitor, me either, I talked to the camera and lights.
She asked a few easy questions, I answered, just warming up. That's it, she
said, thank very, very, much, thank you. A pleasure, I muttered (but there's
more, much more to myself). She said this will be used tomorrow morning,
click. Sounds good, I said to nobody.
That session was dumped, as far as we know, after news of the Wikileaks documents
appeared on NY Times while the taping was underway.
Sunday night another interview, live, was arranged for Monday, 11AM, for
comment on the documents. A car was was offered by Stephanie. We asked for
armored limo, hired entourage with security and $25,000 fee. She said, be
on time, click. The stageshow was repeated in the empty studio space except
Jim Clancy in Atlanta did the interview. Both of us on a monitor so I enjoyed
what a cheap lay I looked and sounded compared to Assange's professional
whoring the NY Times, Guardian and Der Spiegel. Just as I was preparing to
ten-dollar groan and moan, Jim said thank you very much, this is CNN
International, click.
The quickie embed leak:
http://tinyurl.com/26qcoko
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