Broken News

Dems missed chance.....Someone else's fault LMAO I cant stop laughing. Thank you Newsweek, I needed that.

I agree this is the worst coverage of the convention that i have ever seen. MSNBC has by far the worst two in olberman and mathews. Brokaw can't even save it. I guess the time of good news anchors is at an end and now it is forever drowning the professionalism that Chancelor, Chronkite, and all the good news people that have gone before had attained. The message that this convention has conveyed to the public is that every news agency is not just mildly biased but that the media thinks americans are dumb and the media needs to tell eveyone what to think . Bandwagon jounalism at its worst .

I watched CNN and so looking forward to hearing some of the speeches. BUT, they chose which speeches could be heard, and dissected every other one. Just hush. Yes, we know you feel that you have the arduous task of telling us what really happened, just in case we are too stupid to have drawn our own conclusions. "They should have said" or "she missed it because she didn't say.." It's not your speech so please just HUSH UP!!!!!!!!!

I agree with you so much. Last night, Montana's Governor gave a wonderful speech that should have been the keynote speech, he blasted McCain repeatedly and spoke specifics about Obama's energy policy. He rallied the crowd like no one else last night. Sadly,the only ones that heard it were the people there in Denver and those that watched the convention on C-Span or PBS. Nowhere else was this shown. The punditry is ridiculous.

I couldn't agree more. I was so annoyed at MSNBC and CNN. I also turned to C-Span, I think the media is really doing an injustice to the country, it looks like it's more important what they think as oppose to letting the country figure it out for themselves

This convention is all about talking points, and this will be the same with the Republican convention. It seems that who ever you talk to (delegates) they have the the same talking points, same rhetoric day in and out. I agree, get rid of these pundits. If you want an unbias coverage watch C-SPAN.

watch c-span and you will get all the facts

I have to say I agree as well. It was exhausting, all the self-congratulatory blather and non-issues clouding the air. Indeed, I did switch to CSpan. Isn't it sad that you have to turn off the news because you can't get any, just stale opinions?

I agree fully; the pundits are trying to steal the show. They may well, come next week, say they've "learned their lesson" and back off of their constant, interrupting and disrupting coverage. There seems to be enough carnival energy on the convention floor, why flood our tv screens with it? I sure wish Brokaw was at the helm, or Bob Schiefer...someone with class and civility.

You've got a lot of nerve....classic example of the pot calling the kettle black.

Thank you for your spot-on article regarding the media pundits. I have been so turned off by the talking heads of late that I've quit watching - not just the convention, but cable news in general. Maybe if more people would turn off CNN and MSNBC and turn on PBS and CSPAN they might get the message.

Pat Buchanan is a total BUZZ KILL!

Pat Buchanan is A total BUZZ KILL!

I didn't even watch the convention, for pretty much the reasons covered in this article. All I want is a short speech from the candidate, telling me his plan. Not Bill, not Hillary, not even Ted Kennedy - just the candidate (although the exchange with his daughter would have been worth seeing. I'll keep an eye out on YouTube.)

Amen! I don't uynderstand why "the comentators" think they are they show. As you said, "could the TV pundits get out of the way of the show?"

I have been watching C-Span coverage and switching to the networks during the lull between speakers. The prima donna pontification is more than I can bear. I am sick to death of all the paid talking heads that feel complelled to explain the obvious to me. Just shut up, already. Thank the Lord for C-Span. The networks are a wasteland filled with empty souls and zombie producers.

I completely agree!! My husband and I quickly found the C-span coverage and settled in to enjoy the short gems of speeches such as the one by the guy who hired Obama as a community organizer. We aren't shut-ins, we just wanted the deeper experience - not just the cliff notes. Americans would be doing their kids a huge favor by exposing them to the greater content of speeches, not just the pundit version which is half-reporting and half-opinion-for-entertainment-masked-as-reporting. Yes, it's slow but that allows time to discuss (remember what that's like?) - not everything in life has to be experienced at breakneck speed. Here's to more C-SPAN & PBS and less unbalanced news!!!

Hey, kenbojoe . Chris Matthew's is as bad as the rest, bloviating about the Clinton's completely out of context to anything else. I'm college-educated, rationao, and practice critical thinking, so quite certain I don't require a pretty haircut to explain things for me. In jumping around the channels, I've found that C-Span provides exactly what I want: coverage of the convention without the 'talking heads' getting in the way.