NBC gets the ‘gets’

Our politically-savvy cousin at Fishbowl DC has a scoop: First Lady Laura Bush has given NBC an exclusive on her upcoming trip to Africa – it’s the only network allowed on the plane and there will be no pool coverage. The White House press corps is in a tizzy, reports FBDC:

No one in the press corps can remember a time when a network was given exclusive rights to an official White House overseas trip… [a]dding insult to injury, though, for the West Wing reporters: NBC isn’t even going to use one of its White House team. It’s assigned Ann Curry of the Today Show to cover the trip.

Needless to say, speculation is rampant about what kind of behind-the-scenes negotiations took place to swing this deal. Read more at FishbowlDC, or speculate rampantly yourself and send him (or us) an email.

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