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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN Hopes to Capture Candidates’ Combative Spirit in G.O.P. Debate.
The leading Republican presidential hopefuls have spent the weeks since their first debate provoking each other, with distant taunts and tweeted insults.
And now CNN, which hosts the second candidate clash here Wednesday night, is aiming to capture that same combative spirit by getting the candidates to engage with one another in person and on camera.
The effort to encourage candidate interaction differs from the approach taken in the first debate by Fox News, which relied heavily on its three accomplished moderators to ask tough questions, forcing the participants to outline their positions and explain their records, yielding only a handful of memorable exchanges between the men on stage.
Fox News drew praise for its handling of the event along with a record number of viewers but CNNs team of producers and moderators said they were looking to establish a different tempo and to emphasize candidate interaction above all else.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/16/us/politics/cnn-hopes-to-capture-candidates-combative-spirit-in-gop-debate.html?_r=0
Won't THAT be fun???
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)In Canada folks are half way into what is being termed a "marathon" federal election campaign of...almost 70 days!!
400 days in America....makes me laugh every time I think of it...really, it does...I am laughing now!
It is not "campaign season", it is "fundraising and fun season" in America, since no one is actually voting any time soon.......so to me that is so obvious, but it not be not spoken about at all and no calander will every be displayed by the media profiting just as much from all the mass pretending going in.
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)The GOP is getting months of free advertising and has been setting the media agenda.
elleng
(131,102 posts)PSPS
(13,614 posts)The more "OutRaGeOUs!!11!" the better. So unserious. Disgusting.
moondust
(20,006 posts)Including the audience.
Anything goes, baybee!!!
That'll liven things up.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)I am going to be drunk and watching all of the idiot Murray brothers be inducted into the caddy hall of fame. And I suspect every idiot Murray brother will be drunk.
onethatcares
(16,184 posts)reality teevee at it's finest.