{"id":785,"date":"2008-01-16T02:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T08:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=785"},"modified":"2008-01-16T02:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T08:37:00","slug":"my-tiny-part-in-charlie-wilson%e2%80%99s-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/01\/my-tiny-part-in-charlie-wilson%e2%80%99s-war\/","title":{"rendered":"My tiny part in Charlie Wilson\u2019s War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">A<\/span>nd I mean barely discernible. Towards the end of <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Charlie Wilson\u2019s War<\/span>, Texan congressman Wilson (played by <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Tom Hanks<\/span>) having helped finance the covert war in Afghanistan looks up at a TV screen and sees Dan Rather introduce a piece that begins with the final column of Red Army tanks crossing the Friendship bridge back into the old Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>There is a brief upsot and the voice of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">CBS News<\/span> correspondent <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Barry Petersen<\/span> comes through, narrating their departure. Watching it took me instantly back to February, 1989.<\/p>\n<p>I took in Petersen\u2019s piece as a very junior CBS staffer, track and rushes. I remembered the shots and the script. Barry always did an on-camera countdown into his pieces to camera: \u201cIn &#8211; uh &#8211; three &#8211; uh &#8211; two &#8211; uh &#8211; one&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But what I most remember from those day of multiple telexes to arrange satellite paths, microwave hops to earth stations, and unreliable landlines, is the sheer number of people involved in co-ordinating the whole process. Staggering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I mean barely discernible. Towards the end of Charlie Wilson\u2019s War, Texan congressman Wilson (played by Tom Hanks) having helped finance the covert war in Afghanistan looks up at a TV screen and sees Dan Rather introduce a piece that begins with the final column of Red Army tanks crossing the Friendship bridge back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-cbs-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}