It was like a popcorn-reading portrait of the way the 24-hour news cycle chased the hottest and most important story in years.
By Reis Thebault Reis Thebault National and breaking news reporter Email Bio Follow April 18 at 11:25 PM The report was nearly two years in the making and 448-pages long — likely one of the most anticipated legal and political documents in a generation. Prosecutorial jargon and blocks of redacted text waylaid readers on nearly every page, making it a dense tome to navigate.The special counsel’s handiwork went live just after 11 a.m.
— Tom Jones April 18, 2019 “You’re not going to get to the heart of it in one sentence,” said Jones, whose Twitter account dutifully documented each anchor he saw reading aloud on TV. “It’s been in the making for two years, it’s written in legalese, with footnotes, and it’s a very complicated document. There is no one sentence, there is no highlight, there is no way to boil this down to 20 words.”CNN analyst Chris Cillizza posted a link to the report on Twitter at 11:02, announcing “It’s here.
Lauren Pratapas, a CNN spokeswoman, did not answer questions about the reporters’ speed-reading ability or whether they had, at the time, “read the report.” Meanwhile, on MSNBC, Ari Melber was the network’s first to read from the report. He began by reading the title and then, haltingly, moving onto the table of contents. “This will be interesting,” he said, “I’m going to read it live here with you.”
At least these admissions offered audiences transparency, a crucial element of reporting at such break-neck speed, wrote The Post’s Margaret Sullivan in a Mueller Eve column about the perilous news day to come.
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