If you didn't watch the convention on C-Span last night, you really missed some great moments. Even Fox blabs all the way through some fine presentations and only covers the major speeches. If they had covered the entire evening last night, their ratings would have been better since I'm sure I'm not the only Fox viewer who switched to C-Span. The alphabet networks are so biased that they ought to have millions of viewers complain to their local affiliates and file these complaints with the FCC. The local boys don't want to anger Republican viewers or advertisers and only they can exert pressure on the partisan network bigwigs.
Guilty as charged. I also made no effort to keep up with the live thread.
New media trumps old media...in my opinion. I was watching msnbc at times...Mike Barnicle (can you believe it)said 'Kerry's campaign has a long way to go, and the speeches knocked the pins out from under Kerry'. He was watching with regular folks in Queens...he said it was powerful. When the lady who's husband was killed on 9-11 and who's navy son is going to Iraq. People stood and applauded and wept. He also went out with the tourists to Empire State Building and every single tourist looked out in to the distance looking for buildings that were no longer there.Americans are hungrgy to remember 9-11; they don't want to pretend it didn't happen like the media. I think Fox's coverage is lame...from the O'Reilly 'I won't cover partisan speeches', to having to listen to Alan Colmes mouth the Dem talking points to Greta ( I only watched briefly). Brit was the best, but I watched on C-Span and MSNBC. Even Brit seemed a bit cynical. I had stars in my eyes last night. I didn't want to hear the speeches dissected. Ron Silver was amazing. He tore Ron Reagan a new clymer-(officious little troll). Mike Barnicle was excellent too. I have to say, I think MSNBC has had good coverage at times. Although C-span is wonderful-see the entire thing.
You are right! I switched to C-Span which had unbroken coverage! As for the MSM not covering the convention news this morning, that is a mute point. You must realize that the MSM has rendered itself useless as a reliable news and reporting source. If the Swift Boat Veterans, can alter the course of a presidential election with a $100,000.00 ad that is destroying John Kerry, you have to know the MSM does not reach the American public as it once did. Talk radio, cable news and the internet is where folks get their news from these days! The elite MSM is only fooling themselves.
I found the same thing last night. CSPAN was the way to go. As far as I know, it was the only place to hear the Ron Silver speech, and that was an event in itself.
I watched on CNN 2, where they didn't interrupt at all. Amazing that FOX has to be such idiots on this.
I'm a Fox watcher who watched the entire evening on C-Span (and we're a Nielson family). My dem husband was surprised that I watched C-Span (and taped it from there) instead of Fox. So I showed him the difference. In flipping around to show him what was going on the other channels instead of straight covereage, we paused for a moment on Aaron Brown of CNN. He called these wonderful speeches attacks. CNN has done more than I ever could to show my husband that there really IS media bias and that the Republicans really do have a better platform.
The music alone was worth wading through the speeches. It was so inspirational and beautiful!