It seems like some members of the media are more interested in increasing their readers/viewers than actually having a productive debate on the important issues. Having some sort of controversy that creates drama instead of real discussion appears to be what's working for them.
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
mercifully, i missed the debate, but Josh Marshall seems to sum up the basic ickiness of it...
"But more importantly the questions upon which the candidates were pressed the most were ones that presumed the correctness of Republican agenda items, sometimes explicitly so -- on taxes, capital gains taxes, gun rights, Iraq, etc." --Josh Marshall
Cpeterka
· 1 year ago
Question for the Candidates. How would you use President George W Bush, once you are the President?
Answer: I'd make him the Ambassador to Iraq. Since he gave them their freedom, he could continue to ensure that democracy can take hold in the middle east.
grandma
· 1 year ago
Not surprising from AP after reading this on Think Progress:
AP and their NEDRA PICKLER are PROPAGANDISTS for the junta who stole power in 2000
vwcat
· 1 year ago
This is the AP. They have done nothing but, complain and criticized and trash Sen. Obama from the beginning.
sittenpretty
· 1 year ago
Charlie Gibson makes $10,000,000.00 a year,how could he possibly think WE worry about the cost of food or gasoline,or cant get propper AFFORDABLE healthcare.he lives ona different planet...ABC/DISNEY is un moved by peoples hardships or concerns,they worry about CAPITAL GAINS TAXES that is all
Rab
· 1 year ago
Print and the wires that they use are hapless. Whatever their motivations they rate nothing better than what Tass did for the Soviet Union.
Cpeterka
· 1 year ago
Philadelphia Daily News endorses Obama.
:) Big Smile, Big Smile !!
firebrand
· 1 year ago
Pennsylvanians (and our good neighbors too):
Please join Barack Obama for a rally in Philadelphia, where he'll talk about his vision for bringing America together and creating the kind of change we can believe in. On Track for Change Rally with Barack Obama Independence Mall Market Street and 5th Street Philadelphia, PA Friday, April 18th Gates Open: 6:00 p.m.
From now on, I'll tape the debate and if the reviews are good, I'll watch it.
At another site, someone has complained that we need the League of Women Voters to run the debates again.
The networks are incompetent---even to schedule last night's debate so that people on the West Coast don't get the analysis before the actual event.
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
It seems the corporate press, ABC, and Senator Clinton cannot derail the momentum for Obama. He is coming across as the change candidate and they cannot stop it. He is rapidly becoming "Mr. Smith" (from Mr. Smith goes to Washington). He seems to exude truth and honesty, something not seen in candidates for a long, long time, something the American people want more than ever. So let AP, ABC, and Senator Clinton continue with their attempts to take him down, the American people will decide who is the best candidate.
Rab
· 1 year ago
I just hope I get to that average income of 200,000.00 dollars that Charlie Gibson talks about. I couldn't believe he's that much of an idiot. Unreal.
grandma
· 1 year ago
You are right acquarius2......as Joe said....Obama was the only one that left that stage last night with his dignity in tact......and I would add 'integrity'
Americans are sick of the status quo.....and the smear and slime campaigns
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
The AP and Gallup are deep in the winger doo-doo...
grandma
· 1 year ago
from Philidephia Daily News:
Thursday, April 17, 2008 An open letter to Charlie Gibson and George Stephanapoulos
It's hard to know where to begin with this, less than an hour after you signed off from your Democratic presidential debate here in my hometown of Philadelphia, a televised train wreck that my friend and colleague Greg Mitchell has already called, quite accurately, "a shameful night for the U.S. media." It's hard because -- like many other Americans -- I am still angry at what I just witnesses, so angry that it's hard to even type accurately because my hands are shaking. Look, I know that "media criticism" -- especially when it's one journalist speaking to another -- tends to be a genteel, colleagial thing, but there's no genteel way to say this...........
....By so badly botching arguably the most critical debate of such an important election, in a time of both war and economic misery, you disgraced the American voters, and in fact even disgraced democracy itself.....
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"But more importantly the questions upon which the candidates were pressed the most were ones that presumed the correctness of Republican agenda items, sometimes explicitly so -- on taxes, capital gains taxes, gun rights, Iraq, etc." --Josh Marshall
How would you use President George W Bush, once you are the President?
Answer:
I'd make him the Ambassador to Iraq.
Since he gave them their freedom, he could continue to ensure that democracy can take hold in the middle east.
Rupert Murdoch joins Associated Press board.ยป
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/14/rupert-murd...
:) Big Smile, Big Smile !!
Please join Barack Obama for a rally in Philadelphia, where he'll talk about his vision for bringing America together and creating the kind of change we can believe in.
On Track for Change Rally with Barack Obama
Independence Mall
Market Street and 5th Street
Philadelphia, PA
Friday, April 18th
Gates Open: 6:00 p.m.
http://pa.barackobama.com/philadelphia
At another site, someone has complained that we need the League of Women Voters to run the debates again.
The networks are incompetent---even to schedule last night's debate so that people on the West Coast don't get the analysis before the actual event.
Americans are sick of the status quo.....and the smear and slime campaigns
Thursday, April 17, 2008
An open letter to Charlie Gibson and George Stephanapoulos
It's hard to know where to begin with this, less than an hour after you signed off from your Democratic presidential debate here in my hometown of Philadelphia, a televised train wreck that my friend and colleague Greg Mitchell has already called, quite accurately, "a shameful night for the U.S. media." It's hard because -- like many other Americans -- I am still angry at what I just witnesses, so angry that it's hard to even type accurately because my hands are shaking. Look, I know that "media criticism" -- especially when it's one journalist speaking to another -- tends to be a genteel, colleagial thing, but there's no genteel way to say this...........
....By so badly botching arguably the most critical debate of such an important election, in a time of both war and economic misery, you disgraced the American voters, and in fact even disgraced democracy itself.....
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/An_...
Jacki, Jacki, Jacki.....great point, very sad state of affairs.