Mar 12, 2016
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"The Business Of TV Media And Politics": GOP And The Media..."Each Holding The Other Up, While Bringing The Other Down"
“The Business Of TV Media And Politics”: GOP And The Media…”Each Holding The Other Up, While Bringing The Other Down”
After the last GOP presidential debate, the Fox Business Network is determined to gloat about how much more accommodating they were to the candidates than CNBC. But there is a much deeper story about the relationship between television media and political campaigns than that kind of one-up-manship reveals. Michael Wolff captured that pretty well with a story titled: GOP Candidates are Hollywood’s…
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"It May Be Democrats Who Gain The Most": Why Fox Business Is The Perfect Venue For The Republican Debate
“It May Be Democrats Who Gain The Most”: Why Fox Business Is The Perfect Venue For The Republican Debate
The most recent Republican primary debate, which aired two weeks ago on CNBC, was a well-choreographed pageant of pandering, evasion, and deceit. Confronted with moderators who questioned the feasibility, consistency, and wisdom of their issue positions, the candidates responded not with demonstrations of their substantive knowledge, but with fabrications and unfounded accusations of media bias.
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"That Old Anti-Government Mantra": Bashing "Big" Government Is Easy, Effective And Out Of Touch With Reality
“That Old Anti-Government Mantra”: Bashing “Big” Government Is Easy, Effective And Out Of Touch With Reality
It is easy. It is simple. It plays into the current cynicism of Americans.
Bash government. Tear into not just Washington and the gridlock but into the federal government itself.
If you listen to this crop of Republican presidential candidates you will get an earful – constantly.
Carly Fiorina, for example, said in the CNBC debate, “And this big, powerful, corrupt bureaucracy works now only for…
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Political satire makes me happy.
"The Irony Of Turkeys Being Excluded": Here Comes The New (Old) Whine About GOP Debates
“The Irony Of Turkeys Being Excluded”: Here Comes The New (Old) Whine About GOP Debates
Just as the intended lynch mob aimed at Republican debate moderators began to disperse in disarray, we have a new source of candidate complaints and it’s the one that generated the fine old whine we heard earlier in the cycle: the thresholds set for participation in the Main and “undercard” events using national polls. What’s changed are the candidates most affected.
According to CNN Money, two…
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Happy Birthday to CNBC journalist and occasional GOP scapegoat John Harwood! 2011 VIDEO INTERVIEW
JOHN HARWOOD audio excerpt: "(Cable news channels) want people to fight, whatever is happening. They're looking for the most intense arguments you can have.”
http://mrmedia.com/2011/02/cnbcs-john-harwood-on-obamas-second-act-and-journalisms-inherent-bias-video-interview/#.Vjwa7ISGCxw
"The Wrong Lessons Are Being Learned": Stop Calling Them 'Debates'. They're Game Shows
“The Wrong Lessons Are Being Learned”: Stop Calling Them ‘Debates’. They’re Game Shows
After the bloody mess made by holding nearly two dozen debates in the 2012 election cycle, RNC chair Reince Priebus made reforming the Republican debate process one of his top priorities for 2016. It hasn’t worked. Why? Because these events are not debates at all. They’re game shows.
In 2011-12, attention-hungry candidates jumped at the chance to hold more and more debates, thinking the spotlight…
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