Posted on 09/30/2004 5:00:06 PM PDT by Michael.SF.
FOX News To Control Camera Coverage For Entire Press During First Debate And Saying They Will Not Follow Guidelines Agreed To By Candidates
by Samuel A. Stanson
It's truly hard to imagine.
We've warned again and again that, above all else, the Kerry campaign had to guard against FOX News getting its hands on the debates. We told you the Bush team would work any angle possible to get FOX involved, and that if the Kerry campaign allowed this, we've warned for months now, they would lose the election. All seemed safe, as the moderators and hosts for the agreed to debates did not include FOX in any way, and it seemed unthinkable the Kerry campaign would allow FOX into the mix.
But now we learn, as reported by CNN, FOX News will be entirely in control of the camera coverage for the entire media during the most important of the debates, the very first one scheduled for Thursday night.
If the Kerry camp allows this, they will likely lose the election.
The images broadcast during a debate are arguably more important than what is said. And by being by chosen to man the pool camera for the first debate, FOX News will have entire control over what America sees and how they see it.
And, as if there were any question, FOX News is making clear they will take every opportunity to catch Kerry sweating or with a weird face when he isn't talking or anything unflattering anytime - even against the negotiated rules agreed to by the candidates.
As CNN reports: "Because of journalistic standards, we're not going to follow outside restrictions," said Paul Schur, a spokesman for Fox News, which is manning the pool camera for the first debate Thursday in Miami, Florida."
If FOX mans the cameras, as is planned, whenever Kerry is making a good point, they will cut away to a distracting shot so the point gets lost, and if Bush is sounding bad, they will cut to an unflattering shot of John or something to distract in the audience. And then they will give Bush nice, tight, undistracted focus when they want to make him seem strong.
Hear this now: contact anyone and everyone you can and make it clear that is this is not thwarted in the next day, if FOX News, a known, undeniable member of the Bush campaign, is allowed to control the pool camera - the camera the rest of the media will have to feed from - Kerry will lose the election. It is the equivalent of letting Karl Rove or Dick Cheney control the camera coverage for the debate.
We do not know yet how this was arranged - it is possible the Kerry campaign is not aware of this yet - but it must be changed.
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'Moderate Independent'
How delusional this guy must be.
The dems would know. That's what the dems (and the left leaning press) did when Bush Sr. debated Clinton in 1992.
Perhaps we should allow the cameras to be controlled by the network with higher ratings than all the other cable news networks combined...Uh that would be FOX.
DEMS: WE CAN ONLY ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN WHEN IT HELPS DEMOCRAPS (suddenly we're so offended by a practice we've done for years)
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