Backstage at the Presidential Debate

The best story is Judy Woodruff...90 minutes after the debate was over as the media tent was humming with print reporters doing the deadline dance but all the broadcasters had scattered for live shots and beer, there was Judy Woodruff doggedly still interviewing Jessie Jackson. Then she hopped in the golf cart next to ours driving back toward the center of campus where the CNN tent was staked out and I could hear her say --"Don't drive too fast I don't want my hair to be blown back"
OK, stereotype hair comment from a broadcaster right? Wrong! Judy was there to the very end and the rushing to get back to CNN playing reporter getting the latest reaction to the very end. what a lesson!

Brokaw and Russert we captured backstage of their network platform right after Tom did Nightly News. It is a priceless shot maybe one of the most memorable of my little career. Both sitting on makeshift plywood steps...Tim using a white pad to add the poll numbers and compare to his electoral college score... Tom asking what they meant and he said "It 's all about Ohio"...You gotta see the tape...Amazing...

We also interviewed Walter Cronkite on the local CBS platform --think of high school bleachers top row...That is where, with the wind blowing a desert breeze, we interviewed the old salty anchorman who gave once again an important plug to the value of reading a good newspaper....and a good book!

An amazing day....

Dr. Bill Silcock