GrokTV Special Interview: NH Prez Debate – the Moderators deliberately tried baiting the Republicans

by Skip

Speaking of journalists…..

                       

I also did an interview with Jerry Delemus of the Granite State Patriot Liberty PAC and Diane Bitter (Republican activist and co-founder of the Seacoast Freedom Network).  The full interview is on the bottom, but Jerry, during the interview, raised my eyebrows a bit.

Conservatives often believe that journalists are often biased away from them and and for liberal issues.  After looking at the questions asked, I beleive that most Conservatives would have had a different ordering and emphasis.  Add to that, "Conflict TV is good TV", goes the saying. 

Well, Jerry and Diane, during the interview, told the tale that Josh McElveen of WMUR and John King of CNN had actively conspired to create conflict (where there may not have been any to begin with) and were congratulating themselves for almost pulling it off:

Pulling it off?  I had brought up the subject, with Amy, that the MSM is actively trying to influence the Republican race, to nudge the electorate towards one or more (more moderate) Rs. 

Well, it seems quite obvious that these two chuckleheads have proved my point as in "let’s make the Republicans look petty, argumentative, and start a food fight".  Thus, instead of merely reporting the news, they were actively trying to make the news, to start the skewing of public opinion.

You’d think that CNN might have figured out that people don’t like this at all (given their loss of audience over the last few years, especially compared to Fox).  WMUR is a bit protected from this, being the only commercial TV station in the State.  With this brand of shennanigans, it is clear that the media is not the objective folks they try to portray.

Good going, Josh and John!  You’re trying hard for that skew of 15 points, aren’t you boys?

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  • http://www.survivingfluoride.blogspot.com SurvivingFluoride in Dover

    There is another commercial tv station in NH, fwiw, WBIN out of Derry. Look to their October activities. I’m guessing current contracts limit any real involvement at this juncture. ——– At the very least, I hope they won’t consider using Mr.Tourette for any sort of announcer (King?) The moderator of the debates just would NOT shut up. He would ask a question, then chirp and murmur continually along with the answer. Either pathological or strategic, either way, highly unsuitable. Good to discover it at this time, so to avoid using him in the future. WMUR should have had a producer or director kill his mike, at the least, during the answers. This is some Lame media.—–GG, you used the phrase “food fight”, but I think Foo fight, or Poo fight is what they were after. It’s their element.

  • mer

    What needs to start happening is as the question is being answered, if the moderator starts pulling that crap is to stop and say “You asked me a question, would you do me the kindness of letting me answer without the side commentary?”
    Polite, no snark. If everyone started doing that every single time, then it help highlight what is going on. Won’t stop it, but it won’t hurt.

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