from my perspective. i love the fact that this guy scoops the entire world. let me get a break. when we come back, photo finish. why did news organizes obsess whether the white house would put out the pictures we haven t sign of osama bin laden s corpse. easy-to-swallow petes. two of the most important are energy security and economic growth. north america actually has one of the largest oil reserves in the world. a large part of that is oil sands. this resource has the ability to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. at our kearl project in canada, we ll be able to produce these oil sands with the same emissions as many other oils and that s a huge breakthrough. that s good for our country s energy security and our economy.
how will this convey through the region? if he s mowed down, that takes on a narrative all of his own. do you release the photos? is bin laden portrayed as a martyr to the cause? these things are more than just journalistic details. this narrative the white house wanted to control something that very much sets an agenda and tries to frame this story in a way that reflects reality. as some of those important details of contradicted, osama was not armed and didn t use a woman as a shield. do news organizations look snookered? i didn t see it that way. i think some of the stories looked as if they were trying to be sure is that they had been independently verifying as much as we can. the reality is the media can t independent verify this. al qaeda has confirmed what we cannot confirm. you re talking to a guy that went the air on this network, on cnn, after the bombing of murrah
president bush than obama for capturing osama bin laden? joining us now to examine this, dana millbank, columnist for the washington post and matt lewis. matt lewis, that was a great, unifying national moment. you saw that in the early coverage, and then the cable shows needed something to throw food about. i would have liked to have celebration and unity last a bit longer. it was a great story and team effort, like it took a lot of american presidents of different parties to win the cold war. this was a team effort. president obama deserves a lot of credit for making it happen. by the way, during the campaign saying that we should go into afghanistan. i think president bush deserves credit. this is a fair debate to have, but i wish it would have taken a couple days longer to get to it. you can sense among conservative pundits giving obama credit, sometimes in an obligatory fashion, enough of this. let s talk about george bush and
when white house officials told top anchors and correspondents to roeport to work. the world learned what a team of navy s.e.a.l.s did in a town near islamabad. then came the news that the broadcast networking breaking into their regular programming. i m told by sources it is a national security issue, it is not, repeat, not an issue involving libya. it s involving another part of the world. continuing what we have assumed, it has something to do with the gadhafi. the death of gadhafi. we should be that lucky. cnn has been told that the president of the united states will announce in moments that it is united states has the body of osama bin laden. the president will announce in mere moments that osama bin laden is dead. we have heard from mumt pell sources that osama bin laden has been killed. apparently he was shot in the head.
somebody is that covers the white house whether white house officials this was a good news story for country, a great development for president bahob, who made that gutsy decision. were they trying to sell it a narrative or oversell it? they tried to get in front of a quick moving media environment. they wanted to control the narrative. they were concerned about the isi and pakistan. they didn t want to them to control it. you say conspiracy theories emerging from the region. obviously the white house should be more careful about saying they didn t know what they didn t know. they say this is what we think it might be, but we re not sure. if fairness they re hungry for every detail they can get their hands on. there was a story about the dog that accompanied this unit. the white house was responding to a lot of pressure from people in our business. there s no question about that. the pressure matters. what is the narrative? was this a firefight? was bin laden resisting? was he