These Massive Media Egos

[ludwigb]

Is anybody else watching the debate ticked off about how these media people keep interrupting the candidates? I say just let the candidates have a discussion and stop butting in.

[eaprez]

1. I was thinking the same thing.

They ask a question and when they dislike the answer they interrupt.

[still_one]

2. The candidates are holding there on

I am so proud to be a Democrat!

[ludwigb]

5. They seem to want soundbyte answers

for each question. We have wonderful candidates with substantial answers and they aren't allowed to elaborate.

[ludwigb]

3. Whoever the woman is....

She's the worst of all.

[eaprez]

4. She Doesn't

even wait for the answers to her own questions. They should go back to the "timed" answer....this relaxed atmosphere doesn't work.

[jbfam4]

6. You got that right

Who is she?

[RichM]

8. She is Elizabeth Bumiller of the NY Times.

[cosmicdot]

7. I'm ready for one debate moderated by independent media

... BuzzFlash, et al ...

corporations have ran the others ... give the people of the Democratic Party a chance to ask questions ...

our Media is irresponsible, sensationalist, narrow-focused, etc.

if this Media was contemporary of John Kennedy running for President, we wouldn't have had one brief shining nano-second ...

... when we lose the 4th Estate to special interests, we're facing a tough time ...

... the 4th Estate got itself together on a tennis court in France ... now, they meet on one for doubles and cocktails ...

[dusty64]

9. I shut it off.

I really can't wait to see the debate between chimp and our nominee. It ought to be completely disgusting.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

10. they are a bunch of actors that take themselves too seriously

I think the politicians almost deserve the derisive treatment - since they KEEP VOTING to allow the corporations to buy all the media.

[kevinam]

11. that was awful.

You are exactly right about egos. Gees, were there 4 Dem candidates, or 6?? That was not the way to hold a debate. I think the vast majority of questions were posed to either Edwards or Kerry. That was entirely unfair, and I think Sharpton was right to comment that the media was trying to determine the nominee. I think the moderators had more time talking then Kucinich and Sharpton. Yea, haha, it is New York, that isn't funny, it is rude to the candidates, and the viewers that wanted to hear answers from the candidates. It doesn't matter what part of the country you come from, you shouldn't interrupt constantly when people are speaking, well unless they are republicans :)...Kevin.

[Paradise]

12. after larry king...

thought surely dan rather would choose thoughtful journalists with important questions, and uplift the process :argh:

du'ers, methinks we need to laugh:

"I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman."
Arnold Schwarzenegger, during the California recall campaign... :crazy:

[JI7]

13. HAHAHAHHAHAHAH

"I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman."
Arnold Schwarzenegger, during the California recall campaign... :crazy:


this is toooo funny. i didn't hear of it until now. but it's really got me laughing and i need it after this disgusting debate.

[Paradise]

14. you guys...

make me laugh all the time. glad i could repay.

[Pepperbelly]

15. What I love about DU is when I see something like ...

the candidate debate this morning and want to express my resentment or jubulation or whatever, someone here has already done it. I could not agree more. The Inquisitioners were rude, ill-informed, illogical and boorish. All of the candidates were far more polite than the dolts doing the questioning deserved.

[spooky3]

16. YES! Happened in the last debate also.