The scream that may not have been
The Dean Scream: The version of reality that we didn’t see on TV
The scream that may not have been
By ABC News/WABC/abc12
New York - It was the scream Howard Dean says became famous after the
media played it nearly 700 times in a few days. Not only that, his camp
adds, what we heard on the air was not a reflection of the way it
sounded in the room.
After my interview with Dean and his wife in which I played the tape
again — in fact played it to them — I noticed that on that tape he’s
holding a hand-held microphone. One designed to filter out the
background noise. It isolates your voice, just like it does to Charlie
Gibson and me when we have big crowds in the morning. The crowds are
deafening to us standing there
But the viewer at home hears only our voice.
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Dean’s boisterous countdown of the upcoming primaries as we all heard it
on TV was isolated, when in fact he was shouting over the roaring crowd.
And what about the scream as we all heard it? In the room, the so-called
scream couldn’t really be heard at all. Again, he was yelling along with
the crowd.
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