Footnoting the transcripts

A reporter asked a question to the press secretary this morning, and the White House added "explanatory" footnotes to the transcript...Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: September 05, 2004 - September 11, 2004 Archives: "Now it's not enough that we have a transcript in which the press asks questions and McClellan answers them or rebuts their implications. We get editorial notes explaining what the reporter really meant or disputing the question after the fact so that no one can follow up and call them on a demonstrable distortion."