, Editor-in-chief of the party's monthly political magazine , had entered at the start of the press conference as part of the retinue of party officials accompanying Schabowski. He was the one who now remembered to ask when the new arrangements would come into force. Schabowski scratched his head, became even more flustered and waffled "I was told that ... this information had already been distributed. It really should be in your possession already". He consulted his papers again. When pressed Schabowski blustered on, more consequentially than ever: "it comes in, as far as I know ... is immediate ... at once". He looked for reassurance at comrades sitting alongside him on the stage. The microphones did not pick up their muttered responses which, according to a journalist who was sitting in the front row, varied. Schabowski's glaring uncertainty on the timelines was on display to television viewers of the press conference, but by 19.30, when the news reader Angelika Unterlauf read out the new regulation with the same emotionless face that she used for every Central Committee announcement, it had, for the most part been edited out of television news reports. As the evening wore on the news was picked up beyond the "internal border" with West Germany: East Germans were accustomed to having to "interpret" East German television news reports, which were sometimes unfathomable, but once the respected Hanns Joachim Friedrichs had reported the Fall of the Berlin Wall from the studios in Cologne, those reports gained credibility and the numbers surging joyously between the two halves of Berlin increased. Many viewers who had been watching the press conference itself had in any case kept hold of the Schabowski's use of the word "immediate".