Comments on: TV politics: Audience first, issues second

By: PaulSilver

PaulSilver — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:33:27 +0000

vwcat, I agree. To me, real debates are both entertaining and informative. I wish PBS and CSPAN would take over the process so they can resist the “dumbing down”

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Web Hosting » TV politics: Audience first, issues second — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:14:35 +0000

[...] The Moderate Voice – Domestic and international news analysis, irreverent comments, original reporti… wrote an interesting post today on TV politics: Audience first, issues secondHere’s a quick excerptTV politics: Audience first, issues second April 19th, 2008 by MICHAEL GRANT The New York Times buried a lede big-time in its story about the Clinton-Obama Pennsylvania debate. That debate was widely criticized for the way the hosting network and its moderators, Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos, devoted the first half of the 90-minute debate to questions of little substance, such as the importance of wearing American flag lapel pins. Wrote The Times: “The media post-mortem — which [...]

By: vwcat

vwcat — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:46:34 +0000

:You can have a riveting debate and one of substance with a bit of show biz and make people happy. I think of the ones moderated by Russert and Williams. The candidates were sitting and looking their best. The moderators asked important questions and let the candidates go back and forth a bit on the policy and do some weed wadding. They asked a few lighter or even trivial questions to lighten it.
But, you felt full. You had a bit of dessert along with a good dinner.
There was no excuse for ABC. Not only did they play trivial pursuit and left us feeling our intellect was highly insulted but, the flag pin lady was a plant. Not a democrat, she was for McCain and a republican, but, GS got some of his questions from rightwingers like Hannity.

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Iraq » TV politics: Audience first, issues second — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:31:09 +0000