[afuturegovernor]

NBC said last week it was debuting many of its new fall entertainment shows during the week of the GOP convention, beginning in New York on Aug. 30.

I wonder which party will get more primetime network coverage? Like it was 4 years ago the major networks will gave more time to the Dems.

[raybbr]

How about because by the time the convention gets here we have had over a year of baloney from all the politicians, their handlers and political pundits like Rather? We need a new regional primary system that takes place over an eight week period that ends six weeks before the election.

[jolie560]

Media panders to 'entertainment' and 'commercial breaks'.

Political conventions, if they want to be broadcast, had better hire a TV consultant to fit-into the TV formula.

[snopercod]

In an amazing historical first, I actually agree with Rather.

Is there anybody in America that actually cares about the total BS spewn by the candidates? We all know that they are saying whatever they think they have to say to get elected, regardless.

[Cicero]

It strikes me that the nine midgets have been getting an inordinate amount of time and coverage. It could be argued that Michael Jackson is more interesting than any of them. And frankly he isn't very interesting.

Yet when President Bush gives a major speech, none of the networks carry it.

It's a safe bet that the Democrat convention will get at least twice as much coverage as the Republican convention, and that most of the coverage of the Republicans will be whining and complaints about how selfish and awful they are.

[Mark was here]

Conventions might be interesting if something / anything was to happen that was not scripted months in advance.

[Keith]

There was actually a very good "West Wing" which covered many of the same issues. It was pretty accurate.

[SwinneySwitch]

Dan Blather is still alive??

[anonymous_user]

As if I'd ever watch the Republican National Convention with Damn Blather commenting on it.

[Prodigal Son]

I think the future of broadcast news is in doubt personally.

People have too much tech at hand to have to rely on the networks for info. That is just going to increase.

In the future, a broadcaster will offer several simulaneous threads of news and the viewer will choose which he wants to see.

A homeowner might have an entire wall of his house devoted to various media- all interfaced through and controlled with his computer. The average person's house will look like the CNN studio with all the different events going on and the viewer commanding it all, switching back and forth from event to event, switching to autonous views (web cams) etc.

The "talking head news anchor" will be the thing that becomes extinct. People will have a variety of self made 'news men' like Drudge who will comment on what's going on at any given moment- or the viewer will just switch the comment off and digest the news as he sees it for himself.

[CyberAnt]

But .. Dan wouldn't be saying this if the DEMOCRATS were in power. He's only saying it because he's trying to downplay the repub coverage of the convention.

Never forget .. it was the LIBERAL media who all but refused to carry the 2000 repub convention, but they carried all four nights of the dem convention.

THIS IS JUST MORE SOUR GRAPES FROM THE LIBERAL MEDIA!

[snooker]

Yep ... and why not. With campaign finance reform, no convention coverage and presto the Dan Blathers of the world own the stage.

hehehehe... people have been had again

[ladyinred]

What does Rather Biased expect the parties to do at their conventions?

The media will already tell us who is going to be President before the conventions even begin.

Personally, I hope people like Rather stay away and just let us watch with no propaganda.

[small voice in the wilderness]

I personally enjoyed the 2000 conventions. From the "It is time, time for them to go" to the pathetically hilarious gore "kiss" to the Elvis is In the Building walk of clinton, I found lots to cheer about with the Republican Convention and lots to laugh about with the Dem. Convention. This year should be even better. The Republicans in a celebratory mood, and the Dems. at a very large funeral.

[bert]

Ha, Ha, Ha.

A withered old man has lost it to younger and more capable people who can work.

What a pity his time has been over for years and he can't bear to speak the truth. A living fossil.

[Rightly Biased]

And the Fox said:
"Those Grapes are probably sour anyway"

[Revolting cat!]

Bad news. We need more coverage, to have more people realize there is really no difference between the two parties, to witness the shameless pandering, to note the cynicism of the self-selected ruling classes, the air kisses, the self-congratulatory atmosphere, the bankrupcy of it all.