Posted on 07/21/2007 6:02:58 AM PDT by johnny7
Questions for candidates in debate culled through YouTube
YouTube is trying to do something drastic to the presidential debates: Make them watchable, which would go a long way toward increasing their relevance to voters.
(Excerpt) Read more at broadcastingcable.com ...
Sounds like a DNC 'Gong Show'... with your gay-blade host, Andersahn Cooper
As long as the media controls the content and format it is not a debate just a presser.
Hillary, is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
Exactly!The defining characteristic of journalism is that it promotes itself by criticizing (even second guessing) those who seek to gain authority by accepting responsibility (in business, the police, the military), and by promoting those (e.g., trial lawyers, union leaders, Democrat politicians) who criticize responsible executives and eschew responsibility for themselves or for journalists.
Consequently "objective" journalism is inherently leftist - a fact which produces the myriad examples continuously documented by "conservative" talk show hosts, the Media Research Center, and so forth. And the more agressively journalism proclaims its own objectivity, the more they betray their arrogance and the more certainly they are committed to their vision of their own importance - and the more patently they are not objective.
When people such as this are "objective moderators" in "debates," the result is a skewed discussion in which leftist themes predominate - unless there is a Ronald W. Reagan to withstand the partisan tendency.
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