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To: Tax-chick; Obadiah; Mind-numbed Robot; Zacs Mom; A.Hun; johnny7; The Spirit Of Allegiance; ...
I said,
. . . the interview part of the contest is the most extreme example of the difference. The interview is not an intellectual contest. To the contrary it is a Political Correctness contest. The challenge is to come up with the safest answer. If the question is about failure of teens to know something simple, the answer it is that "Class sizes are too big, and teachers aren't paid enough." The entire Democratic Party, and most importantly all journalists, will adopt you as their sweetheart. And therefore the judges will swoon.
. . . and make no mistake, by design the televised "Great Debates" resemble nothing so much as beauty pageants. They are structured to suit journalists, and therefore are intended to pressure the "contestants" to express PC sentiments.

Which, of course, is a game at which a Democrat can always beat a Republican.

Journalists are supposed to be objective, but they are heavily biased in favor of controlling the power of PR.

Republicans are supposed to help those who would rather work than be poor - but they are biased in favor of getting good PR.

Democrats are supposed to favor the poor and the downtrodden. In other words, they make sure to do nothing which would compromise their ability to get good PR.

Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate

73 posted on 08/29/2007 8:53:25 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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BTTT


79 posted on 08/29/2007 9:14:50 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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