Reporters from both conservative and liberal-minded news organizations seem to agree: the CNBC Republican presidential debate was kind of a trainwreck.That wasn’t really because of the candidates, though — it was because of the moderators. For the first hour, CNBC moderators Becky Quick, John Harwood, and Carl Quintanilla didn’t let candidates interact with each other, resulting in multiple moments of incomprehensible yelling. This may have been because of stricter time limits — this particular 10-candidate debate was only two hours, while the previous Republican debates have spanned three hours.But constant interruption wasn’t the only problem. Candidates were also highly critical of the CNBC crew, accusing them of being part of the “liberal media.” At one point, Ted Cruz ripped into the moderators for asking what he called unfair and non-substantive questions. And in two instances, audience members actually booed at questions the moderators asked of Ben Carson and Mike Huckabee.
The author of the piece Emily Atkin quotes observers both left and right who concluded it was a disaster.
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ReplyDeleteI listened to 5 minutes of it coming home from the fitness center at 10:00 pm and it did not inspire me to turn on the tv and watch more. Yep, that is the sense I got, that the questions were dumb dumb dumb. Fantasy football?
ReplyDeleteNot really interested in sound bite television. I think the media has much greater issues than do our representatives. So who chooses the formats and data a populace receives? Seems the fundamental question "without representation" prevails, homage to the advertising contracts.
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