Does Jon Stewart have better satellites than Chris Matthews?

[drbtg1]

(Yeah, I know they don't own the satellites. It just made for a better subject line.)

I just watched the interview w/ Sen. Russ Feingold on The Daily Show.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/03/22.html#a7627

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/TDS-Feingold.wmv

Maybe it's me, but it seemed that TDS didn't have the lag time between questions and answers that plague other interviews where satellites are used.

I know people being interviewed often don't get monitors of the interviewer, giving people like Matthews and O'Reilly an unfair advantage, but I figured the satellite lag time was just an consequence of technology. I see here that maybe it isn't and maybe it's another case of stacking the deck.

I realize TDS could have done some editing, but it seemed awfully clean for that.

[Orsino]

1. I don't want to be too tin-hat, but I could believe...

...that corporate media inject a little extra delay into certain satellite conversations in order to make certain figures appear just a little awkward.

[w4rma]

2. That's partially it. And the delay for editing out things they don't

want heard.