Along these lines, tonight's edition of What a Day opens with this topic. https://bit.ly/2HhzLCB
On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 11:58 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > Inclusiveness is not the value I had in mind; rather it was commitment to > a free and independent press. Fox News is a compromised organization, but > it does provide news to a significant fraction of the nation, and a party > that hopes to govern the entire nation ought to open itself to coverage by > the widest possible spectrum of the news media. Certainly I would be > critical of Republicans if they restricted sponsorship of their debates > only to Fox News. > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 7:51 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 7:17 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Unlike debates for the general election for president, which are >>> generally organized by some neutral group and covered as a public event by >>> any media outlet that chooses to, debates for party nominations are party >>> events, that the party contracts with a media partner to produce and carry. >>> >>> I am quite familiar with the New Yorker piece, and take second place to >>> no one in my scorn and disgust at Fox News network. But excluding them is >>> contrary to core values that (as a long time active member of the >>> Democratic Party) I belive should be part of the Party’s DNA. >>> >> >> All partisanship is exclusionary by definition. Democrats exclude >> conservatives; Republicans exclude progressives. Democrats are >> theoretically the party of inclusion, but frankly all are not welcome. For >> example, I could not conceive of a scenario in which the Democrats would >> agree to have Alex Jones moderate a debate for them on InfoWars. The point >> of primary debates is to give those in the party a chance to hear from the >> candidates. If it can be demonstrated or proven that the majority of >> Democrats do not watch FoxNews, it makes sense to exclude them from >> contention as a host for a debate. >> >> >>> On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 6:26 AM Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> A question from me on this: when a primary debate is hosted by one >>>> network, are other networks not able to cover it live anyway? If so, then >>>> they may choose not to - after all the branding will be for a rival - but >>>> that's a choice they make. >>>> >>>> In Brian Stelter of CNN's email today he noted: "[Fox News] held a town >>>> hall with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in 2016, but it hasn't held an >>>> actual Dem primary debate since 2004." >>>> >>>> In fact, you would think it to be of interest to Democrats to get some >>>> familiarity with their candidates early on, so they're more of a known >>>> quantity later. But given some of the things that came out of Jane Mayer's >>>> New Yorker piece this week (Give yourself plenty of time to read it if you >>>> haven't already: >>>> https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/the-making-of-the-fox-news-white-house) >>>> you can completey understand the Democratic position. The story makes >>>> renewed clams about Trump being given advance notice of questions in a >>>> Republican primary, and if that's the case, then even a debate held within >>>> the news division couldn't be guaranteed as fair. >>>> >>>> >>>> Adam >>>> >>>> On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 1:32 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I hope they reconsider this also. Fox News is horrible, but it is not >>>>> the place of the people who want to run our government to decide which >>>>> news >>>>> organizations they want to cover them. There are going to be 12 debates >>>>> this year (2019), it doesn’t really matter what the ratings would be on >>>>> Fox >>>>> News. DNC could insist that only people identify by FN as being full time >>>>> in the “news” side (not opinion) are involved. >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 7:33 PM Steve Timko <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> FOX News seems fixated on AOC. I'm surprised they'd want to hear from >>>>>> other Democrats. >>>>>> NEW YORK (AP) - The Democratic National Committee says it won't pick >>>>>> Fox News to televise one of the upcoming debates being held for its 2020 >>>>>> presidential contenders. >>>>>> The party chairman, Tom Perez, says he's concluded that the network >>>>>> isn't in a position to host a fair and neutral debate. He's citing a New >>>>>> Yorker magazine article released Monday that details Fox's relationship >>>>>> with President Donald Trump. >>>>>> Even before the article, some Democratic activists were complaining >>>>>> about the committee's consideration of Fox as a potential broadcast >>>>>> partner. >>>>>> The Democrats have announced 12 debates for later this year, with NBC >>>>>> News and CNN set to broadcast the first two. >>>>>> Fox says it hopes the Democrats will reconsider. >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>>>> send an email to [email protected]. >>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Sent from Gmail Mobile >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> -- >>> Sent from Gmail Mobile >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> Kevin M. 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