Functional Ambivalent is appropriately worked up about the “news” coverage of the debate.
This is the biggest, best-financed, most professional journalism machine in the history of the world, at a critical moment in our history, on a night when public interest is high and audiences are large just before a Presidential election…and that journalism machine walks through the coverage using the same template it would use if it were covering a Congressman’s speech in front of the Rotary Club of Bettendorf, Iowa. Get a Republican reaction…get a Democrat reaction…get the story filed and head to the bar.
As he says, “a news-like substance.”
Truly, the best coverage was broadcast by C-SPAN I which had a split screen showing both candidates at all times. Too bad all Americans did not get to see this.
President Bush looked so uncomfortable and towards Senator Kerry with contempt, whilst he pretended to be scribbling something important.