I don't know which is more shocking:

• watching the Democratic nomination of Kerry last night on CNN and hearing the convention producer shouting, "Where are my goddamn balloons? What the fuck are you guys doing up there?!"
• or, finding almost no evidence of the event on news sites today

I know I'm not the only person who saw this happen, since it was broadcast live on CNN. There must have been millions of people who saw the same thing, and heard the same audio of the convention producer freaking out on live television.

The Boston Globe wrote this article, and here's another article that puts a polite spin on last night's balloon fiasco:

"Go balloons," said convention producer Don Mischer, instructing the balloon droppers. "Go balloons. Go balloons!" His voice was becoming increasingly frantic -- and it was going out over CNN.

"I don't see anything happening," he said angrily. Unknown to him, CNN was running his name and title across the bottom of the screen.

Long minutes after the place was supposed to be a blizzard of balloons and confetti, Mischer was still shouting that it wasn't happening, at least it wasn't right. Viewers saw a lot of balloons, in fact, and Kerry, family members and delegates happily batted them around. But nothing like the 100,000 that had been supposed to cascade down.

At one point Mischer used a profanity to rebuke his balloon-dropping crew. CNN was still broadcasting his voice.

So what's going on here? Why are all news sites pretending this didn't happen? And how many people are going to say that it didn't happen because it's not all over the news?