The networks will carry highlights from the debate afterwards but they won't show it live. Plus the network hosting gets to choose the moderators. There may be debates with journalists from different networks, but those are usually hosted by a non media group, like the league of women voters.
On Mar 7, 2019, 6:26 AM, at 6:26 AM, Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote: >A question from me on this: when a primary debate is hosted by one >network, >are other networks not able to cover it live anyway? If so, then they >may >choose not to - after all the branding will be for a rival - but that's >a >choice they make. > >In Brian Stelter of CNN's email today he noted: "[Fox News] held a town >hall with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in 2016, but it hasn't >held an >actual Dem primary debate since 2004." > >In fact, you would think it to be of interest to Democrats to get some >familiarity with their candidates early on, so they're more of a known >quantity later. But given some of the things that came out of Jane >Mayer's >New Yorker piece this week (Give yourself plenty of time to read it if >you >haven't already: >https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/the-making-of-the-fox-news-white-house) >you can completey understand the Democratic position. The story makes >renewed clams about Trump being given advance notice of questions in a >Republican primary, and if that's the case, then even a debate held >within >the news division couldn't be guaranteed as fair. > > >Adam > >On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 1:32 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I hope they reconsider this also. Fox News is horrible, but it is not >the >> place of the people who want to run our government to decide which >news >> organizations they want to cover them. There are going to be 12 >debates >> this year (2019), it doesn’t really matter what the ratings would be >on Fox >> News. DNC could insist that only people identify by FN as being full >time >> in the “news” side (not opinion) are involved. >> >> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 7:33 PM Steve Timko <[email protected]> >wrote: >> >>> FOX News seems fixated on AOC. I'm surprised they'd want to hear >from >>> other Democrats. >>> NEW YORK (AP) - The Democratic National Committee says it won't pick >Fox >>> News to televise one of the upcoming debates being held for its 2020 >>> presidential contenders. >>> The party chairman, Tom Perez, says he's concluded that the network >isn't >>> in a position to host a fair and neutral debate. He's citing a New >Yorker >>> magazine article released Monday that details Fox's relationship >with >>> President Donald Trump. >>> Even before the article, some Democratic activists were complaining >about >>> the committee's consideration of Fox as a potential broadcast >partner. >>> The Democrats have announced 12 debates for later this year, with >NBC >>> News and CNN set to broadcast the first two. >>> Fox says it hopes the Democrats will reconsider. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups >>> "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> Sent from Gmail Mobile >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >an email to [email protected]. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
