Broken News

Why do the talking heads feel they need to 'explain' to the viewers what was meant when the candidate said, 'blah, blah, blah'. I am an adult with a normal IQ. I don't need someone explainging everththing to me like i was a child. Just SHUT UP already.

If you watch this stuff on anything but C-Span you are depriving yourself of the right to think for yourself.

you read my mind; it is so annoying when Wolf Blitzer and gang and Fox and MSNBC--spend more time wanting to hear their own droning voices(and mind you--the same repeating commentary) and not let us actually hear the speakers and make our own judgments. I was also annoyed when the networks came on and spent the first 15-20 minutes with their own commentary rather than actually showing more clips of what happened during the evening's speeches. By doing so, we missed Spielberg's film for the soldiers and a part of Beau Biden's moving introduction of his father. C-Span it is!

Let them all be heard !!!

i have a friend who only watches fox untill i told her to check out other stations. but she has been programmed in her mind all the false information about the political candidates. the msnbc is calling for democrats to speak very harsh against mccain . this is a problem because our country has become conscience seared! we want to fight and not really hear the issues, or just have the truth be known. politics should be encouraging and not such about hard word thrown againt the other. there is no innocense in our hearts for good campaign ,but for a nasty word or mudslinging. you cant teach your child to play nice and root for a fight for adults . .John Kerry was great!! I say ,Keep it clean all the way , Mccain act like a junk yard dog!!! It does not appeal to all american!!

Agreed, especially after last night and the fact that MSNBC barely aired one uninterrupted minute of John Kerry's awesome speech. I was so disappointed.

Bush and his lackey, John McCain, have hit rock bottom. They have no vision for America. Bush and McCain have committed irreprehensible acts of violence and murder through forcing our militaries to commit to infamous wars. Bush and McCain have revised the Constitution to fit their vision. Bush and McCain have walked on people's rights with illegal incarcerations in Guantanamo and wire tapping. Bush and McCain have abused their positions to profit from BIG OIL. Bush and McCain have deprived the troops of sufficient protection from extremists and terrorists. McCain and Bush have not stood up against Domestic terrorism such as hate crimes against the liberal base, i.e. The Republican that entered the church and fatally shot audience members and the Arkansas Democratic headquarters.

Bush and McCain have failed to capture Bin Laden. They are failures.

This is a very good article congratulations on getting it right! I am comming from the other side of the Isle but I completely agree with your assesment of the coverage it was crazy. I watched some of the speech on cnbc and could not beleive Mathews, Olberman, and Maddow spent more time talking about Bidens speech on paper than the one he actually gave. They critiqued his delivery and missed the message. They were confounded as to why he didn't emphasize they points they thought mattered most instead of trying to figure out exactly what it was he had to say. Since when do the reporters get to go back and re do the speech. It was disgusting.

I for one was kind of looking forward to the average everyday person the Democrats had hoped to trot out on stage and give the most important speech of their lives but instead I was treated to more commentary on what I had already seen by people more interested in the delivery than the content.

The one shining star has been Luke Russert he reports with a small chip on his shoulder and gives a glib slightly jaded report on what is really going on. I laughed out loud as he pointed out the games of the convention eyeing the process with the kind of skeptisism that used to be a hallmark of true journalism.

I have also noticed many of the political posters on this site and others have watched the convention on Cspan (atleast nancy didnt shut down the lights) the unfiltered raw approach is probably the only way to get the message the conventioneers are trying to project.

Indeed, CSPAN is the way to go with these events. My son had to watch one of the speeches and write a report on it for his own speech class, so I recommended CSPAN for Sen. Biden's speech, knowing that my son would hear the speech and not some self-appointed "expert" yammering over it.

You are right on. Thanks to the abysmal coverage, I have discovered CSPAN and intend to stay with it for the duration.

Let's face it folks, they've got us hooked. Many keep complaining about political coverage and commentary, but we keep tuning in to the same blabber mouths. As long as we keep watching, they'll keep talking(yelling) that's how they remain on TV. If you don't like it, C-Span and PBS are better options, like other posters have mentioned.

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at least the bloviating is kept to a minimum between speeches. The rest of the media coverage is nothing more than hackneyed self absorbed navel gazing. At least they are getting the conflict that they keep promoting----with each other!