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Darkbeer
03-31-2003, 10:08 AM
ABC News Hurt by Breaking News Snafus (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030330/ap_on_en_tv/ap_on_tv_abc_blues_1) - AP, 3/30/03

QuikQuote: They were less so with the war's start, coming less than two hours after the expiration of President Bush's 48-hour deadline for Saddam Hussein. Not only wasn't ABC ready, but one of its first experts on the air, Tony Cordesman, seemed visibly surprised.
"There were a number of factors that contributed to that," said ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider. "But at the end of the day, we should be ready to go and we weren't as prepared as I would like us to be."