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I sat at my desk and turned on MSNBC, Fox, CNN, and E! all at once as I started reading blogs. Bookers were going crazy trying to contact people who could come on the air and speak to Keith about Michael Jackson. The people at Ed, Maddow, and Hardball got to leave. It was all Olbermann, all the time, and it was going to be a long night. My job was simple: sit, watch, and wait. At one point I got a call that the director was falling asleep so I ran him coffee. Outlook wasn’t working so I was running updated guest lists back and forth from the control room. I went across the street to Duane Reade and got a dozen bottles of water to distribute in the control room, and a Diet Coke to take to a guest in the studio, (she replied, “Thank you thank you thank youuuu!!!!”). Keith was on the air from about 6:30 until 11. And just as I thought that MSNBC was more spin than news, everything changed. Our coverage was unbelievable. I might go more into details later, but wow.
