Just the same, even the incomplete estimates surprised cable news executives, and bolstered the case of critics who questioned the broadcasters' decision to forgo live coverage of a presidential speech when war potentially looms.
The hard-line newspaper Kayhan ran a banner headline — "Sanctions are back!" — nearly crowding out coverage of a celebratory speech by moderate Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
CBS offered an after-convention netcast with Katie Couric, and CNN promoted "full and complete" streaming coverage of all speeches.
Our colleagues over at The Lede blog followed coverage of the speech.
The bounce will only come if Romney secures plenty of prime-time television coverage of his speech, and the host of Republican stars talking him up.
The coverage of the speech would be inter-mingled with coverage of the debate, meaning that Obama's preferred message would be decidedly muddled.
Cable news was, too: after cursory coverage of the speech, it returned to the real news of the day, Ted and Caroline Kennedy's endorsement, that morning, of Obama's campaign.
To his mind, The Post had not been fair in its coverage of his speech, as evidenced by its decision to change its headline.
The "Good Morning America" anchor George Stephanopoulos, who oversaw live coverage of the speech on ABC with Robin Roberts, called it "one of the most remarkable public apologies by a public figure ever".
Britain's two biggest tabloid newspapers, the Sun and the Daily Mail, led their coverage of the speech with "PM to slash migrants' rights" and "Immigration crackdown".In this section Don't mess Cutting losses Toothless truth tellers Everyone out Aux armes, citoyens!
