DNC Announces Six Debates, FauxNews Shut Out

[jefferson_dem]

April 05, 2007

DNC Shuts Out Fox

Fox News may have landed a Democratic debate, but the Democratic Party is refusing to give its formal stamp of approval to the September event, which will be co-sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus Institute.

“The DNC sanctioned debates will not include Fox," says DNC Communications Director Karen Finney in an e-mail.

The Democratic National Committee announced today that it would sanction six debates, starting in July. In 2005, DNC Chairman Howard Dean called Fox "a propaganda outlet of the Republican Party," but has occasionally since then struck slightly more conciliatory notes.

The refusal of the party to consider sanctioning the Detroit debate, however, is a mark of an increasingly unified Democratic effort to marginalize the network.

Fox spokesman Michael Murphy had no immediate comment on the DNC's plan.

UPDATE: An unusually mild response from Fox, in a statement from Marty Ryan, the channel's executive producer of political programming: "We are continuing to move forward with all our debate partners – what Karen Finney expressed has no bearing on our course of action."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0407/DNC_Shuts_Out_Fox.html

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DEBATE SCHEDULE --

CNN and NBC get two and ABC and CBS get one each. Fox News isn't included. Here's the list:

July 23, 2007: YouTube/Google and CNN in Charleston, SC

August 19, 2007: ABC in Des Moines, IA

September 26, 2007: NBC News/MSNBC in Hanover, NH

October 30, 2007: NBC News/MSNBC in Philadelphia, PA

November 15, 2007: CNN in Las Vegas, NV

December 10, 2007: CBS in Los Angeles, CA

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/politics/debates_dnc_announces_six_two_on_cnn_two_on_nbcmsnbc_59165.asp

[Jim__]

1. Good for the DNC!

Why should the democrats contribute to the republican network.

[chieftain]

2. Great News!!

[Greybnk48]

3. Good. Now I can watch them all.

[lpbk2713]

4. Outstanding

It would be wrong to recognize Faux Snooze as a legitimate news outlet when they are nothing more than the propaganda arm of the RNC.

[skipos]

5. Kucinich must be pretty irritated about that.

Har har.

[stevedeshazer]

6. Huh?

Why?

[skipos]

7. Kucinich defended Fox News as a "legitimate news outlet" and

chastised the Democrats who pulled out of the Fox News sponsored debates a few weeks ago.

[TankLV]

8. Good news! Don't give in...

Ever since Dean became chair, I'm proud to be a Democrat...

That last idiot was a DISGRACE - still is - the weasel whoever he was...