The Great Debate & the Media's Great Failure
The debate was easy to score. The candidates 10 the media minus 2. These debates show the media at our very worst—and I mean this in a truly bi-partisan way. In both the Republican debate and the Democratic debate CNN and Wolf Blitzer did their very best to create good television by utilizing bad news practices.
They wanted action. They wanted sparks to fly. A good fight makes for good TV. Romney and McCain sparing Tuesday night and getting all those clips played on all the other networks encouraged CNN to be provocative and to lob “gotcha” questions calculated to get anger, outrage and a good picture. This was like paparazzi for candidates. The old paparazzi trick is to shout out something insulting and get the picture of the star or starlet with a snarl.
CNN isn’t the only guilty party. Most of the debates have featured bomb lobbing, with the journos going for the questions designed to squeeze the candidate into saying something that will start a fight. Most candidates do not rise to the bait that these master baiters toss them. It is not after all the job of the candidates to make good TV by looking bad, angry or confrontational.
The media do this all the time and thank goodness they usually aim at public figures. But why does this seem okay to do? I thought we were supposed to report the news and not make it or fake it. The political paparazzi seem to me to be like people yelling, “Fire!” in a crowded theatre—they can foresee the trouble they are intentionally creating.
Too many questions were not designed for their probative value but only to incite. Why are journalists involved in this kind of train wreck pandering to the lowest common denominator? The public deserves to be able to distinguish news from entertainment. News divisions should stay in the news business and leave reality TV alone. Obama and Clinton are not Britney and K-fed. Romney and McCain are not Ali and Frazier. Leave the trash and trash talk to sports and entertainment. Ask some real question that illuminate through reasoned argument not incendiary explosions. They/we should portray reality not mold it. Shame on them. Shame on us.
Please provide some examples.
Sorry, Aron. As you can see from the front page of today paper there is no value or examples in political debates. It is all a game. Yesterday Obama and Hillary were at each other neck and today they are all smiles and kissy-kissy. All of them presidential candidates keep telling us that we have problems. They must think we are idiots. We know we have problems. Perhaps the candidates think that we carry around (with our cells and water) a bucket of sand to hide our heads when we dont want to see something unpleasant. They tell us that they are going to do this and that (Remember Arnold, the actor?) without ever making clear where the money is. The money we need to fix all those problems. Where is the money coming from? It won't be coming from the twenty percent tax on payrolls because (take your heads out of the bucket) you can see that weeks after weeks the American workers loose jobs after jobs, courtesy of American CEOs, the traitors, who care only to fatten their bank accounts and keep stockholders happy. We have a trade deficit with most nations in the world and our (once mighty dollar) loses value every passing week. So, Hillary, Obama, Mitt, Mc Cain, where is the money coming from? Does it come from the friggin' wars in Iraq and Afganistan? No. Does it come from the oil in Iraq? No. Does it comes from the only American manufacturing company making an obscene amount of money spitting out guns, ammunitions and intelligent bombs? No, I don't think so. Once more, Obama and Company, stop BS'ing and tell us, where is the money coming from?
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