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Mon May-19-08 03:30 PM
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33. Related? the White House made a "formal request" of NBC to alter its news coverage:

http://thepage.time.com/letter-from-the-white-house-to-nbc-news/

The following is a letter from Counselor to the President Ed Gillespie to NBC News President Steve Capus:

Steve Capus
President, NBC News
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, N.Y. 10112

Mr. Capus:

This e-mail is to formally request that NBC Nightly News and The Today Show air for their viewers President Bush�s actual answer to correspondent Richard Engel�s question about Iran policy and �appeasement,� rather than the deceptively edited version of the President�s answer that was aired last night on the Nightly News and this morning on The Today Show.

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