Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 12:00 a.m.

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News Analysis | Coverage to boost Yale’s image

Staff Reporter
Published Monday, September 22, 2008

It was 7:17 a.m. Friday morning, and the viewers of CBS’s The Early Show were about to be taken live to a small room in the basement of Street Hall. Sitting before a blue backdrop emblazoned with “Yale,” dressed in the same black suit and purple necktie he would wear in a classroom later that day, the University’s newest professor waited for his introduction.

“Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has a new job: teaching a course on faith and globalization at Yale University,” anchor Julie Chen said. “He joins us from New Haven, Connecticut.”

The three-minute interview...

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