Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
Good riddance, and about time, they should have suspended after the first CNN debate.
They should have cut their relationship with NBC... after their debate with CNN? Which is unrelated to NBC?
Funny how Hilary and Bernie won't let fox moderators quiz them on national TV.
Note that the Republicans never went with MSNBC, the closest equivalent to Fox.
Star428
I think a more fair question would be do you think democratic debates should only be handled by stations that are left-leaning biased while at same time Republicans have to get moderated by liberals?
Well, to begin with, CNN doesn't have a left-leaning bias, not like Fox does, it's pretty centrist. Note that the CNN Republican debate also had less complaints about unfair attacking than the Fox debate did, which had Trump complaining heavily afterwards, so you focusing on CNN is kinda re-writing history. Sure, that was only Trump, but that's still more than the CNN one got- why exactly are you going after the least controversial moderation of all the debates again?
That said, there is a solid argument that one should have both friendly moderators, i.e. Fox, MSNBC, who'll let the candidates get their platforms out there, as well as ones that are not in your corner and more interested in grilling your people and answering hardball questions, to show how your people can handle both situations.
Now, CNBC's people were pretty poor at their job, but the problem wasn't asking hard-hitting questions, which would've been fine, but rather asking crappy questions (like the Trump comic book one. Really? How is someone supposed to respond to that? Or the 'what's your biggest weakness' one, because job interviews stopped doing that because it *sucks*), "Why don't you hit that other candidate for us?" and such.
A good non-cuddly question is, "Your tax plan say blah blah blah. How do you respond to people who say that'll place an undo burdon on the blah?". Heck, the questions to Carson about his speeches for that miracle cure medical company were good. Like how in the Democratic CNN debate, Sanders was asked how could a socialist get elected- that's a tough question, they weren't softballing him. That's what you want from a non-friendly but non-crap moderate.
It's not, "Are you running a comic book campaign?". That's just crap question selection. "What's your biggest weakness?" is not only a traditionally crap question, but they used it for the *opening*.
Btw, I'll note one of the people asking questions was Jim Cramer, who was famously ripped apart by Jon Stewart on the Daily Show. You keep phrasing it as if 'the left' was out to get them or that all non-fox media is like this, when really, nah, the CNBC people are just considered crap all around by news station standards and thought they could cause fights for ratings.
They're so bad at their job that they were messing up getting the candidates to fight for ratings.