http://emergent79.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/candidates-for-president-democrats%e2%80%99-%e2%80%9cdebate-%e2%80%9d-1-15-08/ A periscopic View from the Trenches of the Present. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:03:42 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://emergent79.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/candidates-for-president-democrats%e2%80%99-%e2%80%9cdebate-%e2%80%9d-1-15-08/#comment-4383 John Edwards » Blog Archive » Candidates for President: Democrats’ “Debate (?)” (1-15-08) Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:28:47 +0000 http://emergent79.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/candidates-for-president-democrats%e2%80%99-%e2%80%9cdebate-%e2%80%9d-1-15-08/#comment-4383 [...] princessandherpets wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptJournalists, reporters, are not trained in oral communication events, as judged by the overriding influence of their journaistic habits evidenced in this “debate” event. The process suffered by that fact. It is a “fact” to those who are knowledgeable in the special nature of debate. Reporters are questioners, and they should have had the understanding of debateable resolutions and direct clash on the issues inherent in the statement of the resolution. Journalistic questions are not policy debate propositions. Journalistic (gotcha) questions derive from muddled news reports and are not germane to the central questions of the campaign. Tim Russert, for whom I have the greatest respect as a digging, probing questioner and journalist, was not right for the “debate” among the three democrats. Being constructive, I forsee an improved and matured future for this kind of campaign event. The candidates themselves will be asked in advance to prepare the resolutions for […] [...] [...] princessandherpets wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptJournalists, reporters, are not trained in oral communication events, as judged by the overriding influence of their journaistic habits evidenced in this “debate” event. The process suffered by that fact. It is a “fact” to those who are knowledgeable in the special nature of debate. Reporters are questioners, and they should have had the understanding of debateable resolutions and direct clash on the issues inherent in the statement of the resolution. Journalistic questions are not policy debate propositions. Journalistic (gotcha) questions derive from muddled news reports and are not germane to the central questions of the campaign. Tim Russert, for whom I have the greatest respect as a digging, probing questioner and journalist, was not right for the “debate” among the three democrats. Being constructive, I forsee an improved and matured future for this kind of campaign event. The candidates themselves will be asked in advance to prepare the resolutions for […] [...]

]]> http://emergent79.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/candidates-for-president-democrats%e2%80%99-%e2%80%9cdebate-%e2%80%9d-1-15-08/#comment-4382 » Candidates for President: Democrats’ “Debate (?)” (1-15-08) Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:55:51 +0000 http://emergent79.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/candidates-for-president-democrats%e2%80%99-%e2%80%9cdebate-%e2%80%9d-1-15-08/#comment-4382 [...] Rudy Sutherland wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptJournalists, reporters, are not trained in oral communication events, as judged by the overriding influence of their journaistic habits evidenced in this “debate” event. The process suffered by that fact. It is a “fact” to those who are knowledgeable in the special nature of debate. Reporters are questioners, and they should have had the understanding of debateable resolutions and direct clash on the issues inherent in the statement of the resolution. Journalistic questions are not policy debate propositions. Journalistic (gotcha) questions derive from muddled news reports and are not germane to the central questions of the campaign. Tim Russert, for whom I have the greatest respect as a digging, probing questioner and journalist, was not right for the “debate” among the three democrats. Being constructive, I forsee an improved and matured future for this kind of campaign event. The candidates themselves will be asked in advance to prepare the resolutions for […] [...] [...] Rudy Sutherland wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptJournalists, reporters, are not trained in oral communication events, as judged by the overriding influence of their journaistic habits evidenced in this “debate” event. The process suffered by that fact. It is a “fact” to those who are knowledgeable in the special nature of debate. Reporters are questioners, and they should have had the understanding of debateable resolutions and direct clash on the issues inherent in the statement of the resolution. Journalistic questions are not policy debate propositions. Journalistic (gotcha) questions derive from muddled news reports and are not germane to the central questions of the campaign. Tim Russert, for whom I have the greatest respect as a digging, probing questioner and journalist, was not right for the “debate” among the three democrats. Being constructive, I forsee an improved and matured future for this kind of campaign event. The candidates themselves will be asked in advance to prepare the resolutions for […] [...]

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