I liked that Merriam Webster tweeted that one of the top five searches during the debate was "what's a lepo".
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016, 2:32 AM Henry Fung <[email protected]> wrote: > Martha Raddatz specifically interjected several times to force Trump to > answer on Syria. Other than ringing a loud buzzer or repeating "your time > has expired" repeatedly like what happened in the California senate debate, > both candidates are going to keep talking past the limit. The debates > really need to be longer - three hours at a minimum, with allowance for ten > minute intermissions between the first and second hours - but given only 90 > minutes of time, they did the best job possible, and better than Lester > Holt who was just bowled over. > > On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 10:46 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, I think it has been established a long time ago that we use the term > "debate" to refer to these events, even if they are not quite Oxford style. > I was part of a debating team in my youth, but I don't sweat the > terminology. > > But I disagree with the claim that viewers did not get much information > about the two candidates; on the contrary, for 90 minutes, if you did not > know anything about these two people, you would have learned quite a bit > about both of them (Health Care policy, Syria Policy, Tax Policy). What is > hard to believe is that any serious voter by this late date does not > already know almost everything there is to know about their positions. > > On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 10:10 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> > wrote: > > It was not a debate. The moderators didn't moderate. Candidates were not > made to answer the questions asked. Candidates (one significantly more than > the other) interrupted each other. The audience interrupted repeatedly. As > theater, I suppose it was entertaining; as a debate, voters would've gotten > more information had both candidates simply each sent out a single Tweet. > > In short I humbly disagree. > > On Sunday, October 9, 2016, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > Without getting too much into how the two participants did, I thought the > two moderators, Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz, really did a good job. > That thought forced me to ask myself what my criteria for a good debate > moderator were. In the past I probably leaned towards wanting the least > intrusive moderator possible, who allowed the participants significant > leeway in violating agreed upon rules and tried to avoid making themselves > the story. Arguably that has never been a good model for a TV presidential > debate moderator, but almost certainly, with Trump in play, it now is not. > Cooper and Raddatz both had to work hard tonight, and had to inject > themselves into things quite a bit, but I think it resulted in a much more > fair and substantive exchange - and they actually covered quite a bit of > ground. I suspect Trump partisans are pissed, but they oughtn't be; the > moderators (and here I suppose I am getting into my view of how the > participants did) probably saved the debate for Trump by shutting down > several of his more unstable and incoherent rants during the first third of > the debate, enforcing time limits, and allowing more questions to be asked. > Trump did much better in the last two thirds of the debate - I would say > that part of the show was basically a draw, after coming across as a mad > man in the first half hour. If the perception of this debate is that it was > close or a draw, it will only be because of the hard work and > professionalism of the two moderators. I also wonder if it helps to have > two moderators work this kind of circus. > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... 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