Broken News

Appreciated the comments by others....I am definitely going with PBS tonight. A bit of commentary is useful....who is that person speaking, what is their history, how do these comments fit into the political picture, etc. That is useful information..... I cannot stand to watch more of the pitiful punditry....enjoyed this article.... I may even renew my Newsweek subscription!!

..........................CNN....Fox.......MSNBC, they have all of their "commentators" spinning the news to favor the Corporate Interests and push the points and people that support the major corporations. Bush was getting major support from these Nedtworks for years even after the American people started seeing what a mistake and looser Bush had become. The media hopes to manipulate the information that comes to Americans, this is obvious.

I agree wholeheartedly. I too switched channels repeatedly trying to see what was actually happening at the convention. As much as I like Keith Olbermann and Anderson Cooper, et al, I really wanted to see and hear what was going on in real time.

I agree wholeheartedly with your main point...too much commentary, not enough C-span-like coverage. I actually watched some C-span and then switched to CNN when the "town hall" started. That whole "town hall" approach made me uncomfortable, also. The CNN pundits seemed to have a story they wanted to tell (which appeared to have a lot to do with Hillary.) and they seemed to become annoyed when the convention on Monday did not help them tell this story. Seemed a bit backwards to me....good analogy with the sportscasters interviewing each other! Political coverage on TV has actually become just like sports coverage....much more focussed on who is "winning" and who has scored a good "punch" rather than any issues....

I stayed there awhile and found them talking about nonesense and then complaining that the

I suppose Carville's critique wasn't really that there was no message. It's that the Bush/McCain critique was left entirely to the bench players - who spoke when nobody was listening - and Monday's heavy hitters played softball and pattycake. To the extent that this was a predictable outcome, shame on Obama's team for letting it happen. I kept waiting for Teddy, in his magnificent moment, to say something like, "this may be my last time on this stage, and if it is, there can be no more important message for me to deliver, to the good people of the party that has been my life, than a message of unity. If we stand divided, the dream will die." Etc etc.
But Michelle Obama's speech did serve as a bit of a weapon against McCain, in that it fairly demolished his mischaracterization of her as an angry castrating crusading feminazi (do Republicans ever think of Dem women as anything else??). So kudos to whoever dreamt up such a velvet covered cudgel.

For someone without cable - stuck with a local channel that had pundits going on and on about what was coming up in the night's broadcast - they never let you see what did happen until Michelle's speech and they played a clip of Kennedy. That was it - one lousy hour mostly played out by very grim looking pundits. A reminder of why I don't normally watch t.v. - it's all conjecture, speculation, over analyzed and worth zip.

I agree with this article. I had just got cable put back in to watch the convention. I got so tired of Cnn and MSNBC talking about all the negative stuff, and not showing any of the speakers. I am so glad for C-span , so I did not have to listen to all the so called experts take about this and that.

the only weakness with this article is it's limitations. the alphabet soup networks ALWAYS do this. with EVERYTHING. you have to wonder what consumer confidence indexes or political polls would look like if we were all forced to watch c-span for a year.
pbs or c-span is the only way to go.

Hey,its your show. Blame your vain pals over at MSNBC for their endless bloviating,and their endless bickering one amongst themselves. The recipe lay in booting Olberman [a self-described Obama ''borderline sycophant''], Matthews,Schuster,Todd,the other idiot farmed out by the failed AIR AMERIKA,the already insufferable-for-her-slavish-Obama-worship Andrea Mitchell,TIMES endless rockstar-groupieism in the form of Klein and Sullivan,drag Cronkite out of the mothball fleet and get him hooked to a mike,and send the rest of these morons to cover the potato judging at the county fair in Boise.

Then get on with the show.

Thank you PBS and CSpan--the only coverage that does justice to the American people. I am so sick of all the hot air and lies coming out of the pundits's mouthes!

BRAVO! You are the first sane word I've read since this election started. It would be nice if reporters go back to just reporting the news instead of analyzing every word and syllable for us. It would be nice for the world to know that we Americans can listen to a speech and make our own decisions on its merits - plus or negative!

Here, here! American media has dumbed us down. We should boycott and watch CSPAN exclusively during the entire conventions. See if that will force the talking head pundits to report the news intead of force-feeding us their polarizing dribble.

Oh, how right you are! Television news has dumbed America down. No wonder Hillary and Bill's antics and those squeaky wheels get so much attention. I suggest we turn to CSPAN and leave mass media's talking heads talking to themselves. Let's see if that will get them to report the news instead of force-feeding us their polarizing dribble.

I love CSPAN! Some of the callers after the speech were ... well.. priceless.

Thank Goodness for C-SPAN!!!

FYI, the pool coverage feed is from Fox.

No bias there.

Thank Goodness for C-SPAN!!!

Watch on PBS or C-SPAN! You won't regret it - SO refreshing.