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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI just heard on the news the GOP wants to boycott NBC News
Apparently over how they were held accountable at the latest debate.
Link: http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/10/30/453166981/rnc-suspends-nbc-debate-partnership-citing-cnbcs-gotcha-questions
Sorry guys. Maybe you all can go by a script at Faux but that doesn't work everywhere else.
Is this their way of censoring the news? Are they to be the judge of what topics are discussed?
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)to placate them. Look at what happened to the "3 hour debate" - Trump and Dr. Feelgood bitched and that was enough to dump the longer format. Now that the RNC and others have seen how easily NBC folds, look for them to demand all kind of concessions in order to make the next debate more 'candidate friendly'.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)They will bend over to the fascists.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)then the Democratic Primary might start actually getting adequate coverage for a change.
I swear, last night their was literally 55-minutes of GOP coverage and a 5-minute footnote about
Democrats. This was on Chris Hayes.
Ok, it was right after one of their debates (of which GOP having at least 14), but still.
When Dems only have 6 debates (thanks Debbie!) we need somehow to make up the difference
and get more coverage, so this is great news.
katmondoo
(6,457 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)They are control freaks gone wild!
kentuck
(111,089 posts)My bet is that they will be unhappy with that one also...
BKH70041
(961 posts)The CNBC moderators were stupid and clearly out to be the debate rather than the candidates. None of those moderators should be allowed near a political candidate ever again for any reason.
The Democratic Party should boycott CNBC and NBC, too. Why take a chance you're going to get a bunch of moderators from a network who have already proven themselves to be incompetent? It's already happened once to your opponents. Learn from it and avoid them at all costs.