Monday’s presidential debate will contrast two remarkably different approaches to entertainment: Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s carefully planned and polished production versus Republican nominee Donald Trump’s seemingly impulsive and brash reality style.
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“I have respect for Lester”, Trump said of the 57-year-old African American who became the NBC Nightly News anchor in 2015.
What topics do candidates debate about and how does it all happen? As legend has it, voters who listened to the radio broadcast of the debate thought Nixon had won, while television viewers believed Kennedy triumphed. The segments will be preselected by Holt; third party candidates Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, and independent Evan McMullin did not qualify to debate.
And if one candidate actually does lie more than the other, moderators who are passive in the face of whoppers place the more honest candidate at a profound disadvantage.
Trump did not say on what attributes he would encourage police to profile possible suspects, but It’s illegal for police to subject U.S. persons to disparate treatment based on their race or other protected status. They failed to make the cut based on their polling results. And we have witnessed debates where the moderators clearly worked hard to craft gotcha questions, highlighting instances when a politician once said X, but later said Y, and now seems to be saying Z. That’s our job when we conduct one-on-one interviews and are tasked with pinning down the politicos when they are being intentionally vague or dissembling (see also: contradictory or flat-out lying).
Moderators for the second debate are ABC News’ Martha Raddatz and CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
In this context, both news programs and political parties began pouring even more resources into preparing for debates and setting their parameters. Tim Kaine, (D-Va.), on October 4.
Having said that, I think moderators should fact-check the candidates, and they can fact-check them most effectively by asking tough follow-up questions.
1st – Hofstra University is hosting a Viewer’s Guide to Televised Debates, which will offer tips for viewing the debate critically and provide a guide how to be media literate while watching the presidential debates. Users can react to the debates and compare their responses with others through a unique interactive experience.
The NFL will not take their rating records being threatened lying down, of course; the first debate will go head-to-head against “Monday Night Football” featuring the New Orleans Saints against the Atlanta Falcons. People on Facebook in the US and around the world will be able to watch these videos live, ask questions and comment with their reactions. NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik argued that debate moderators should not “abdicate [their] role as a truth-seeker and a journalist” and “melt away into the backdrop” because “they can play a constructive and vital role” in the debates by fact-checking candidates.
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It could be the most watched debate ever. Facebook, YouTube and Twitter will also live-stream the debate.
