NEW YORK (AP) - When they arrived at an event Monday and found that Iraq's new chief justice and president as well as U.S. governor L. Paul Bremer were there, CNN's Christiane Amanpour and ABC's Peter Jennings looked at each other. Could this be it? Indeed it was.
The transfer of sovereignty from the U.S. to Iraq two days earlier than anticipated caused media organizations to change plans on the fly Monday.
The big three broadcast networks were fortunate in that each had sent their top anchors - Jennings, Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather - to the Middle East early, although only Jennings was at Monday's ceremony.
The early arrival wasn't necessarily due to news intuition. Rather arrived Saturday because CBS was concerned that travel in and out of Baghdad would be restricted as an expected Wednesday ceremony neared, said Marcy McGinnis, CBS News senior vice president.
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