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Originally Posted by DVaut1
To help me digest this, is there anyway two partisan pundits from each side of the aisle debated this, Crossfire style, on cable news, preferably with lots of yelling and the two debaters cutting each other off, along with the host not allowing any answer to go beyond 45 seconds before interrupting, and the results were put onto Youtube?
You mean like on O'Reilly last night when he discussed this with Ellis Henican? He orated to his guest how the Fox line up of Kelly and Hemmer were the most unbiased reporters on the station. Also how he never partakes in the unrelenting bias currently on the other networks. They both trashed Koppel as a dinosaur, which fits the current broadcaster model. Anchors are intermixed with hosts of commentary programs today, they are expected to inject their personal opinion not only in a wrapup segment, but throughout the newscast.
It was the typical Fox format with their opponent segments. The host with their intent to play a "fair & balanced" card pontificates about how unbiased they are, of course in a lively and highly energetic fashion. If the opposing view begins to make a point, its either shut down immediately by the host, or the pivot technique is performed to another issue.
Scene 1.......up tempo musical introduction, flashing lights & banners, swirling camera work.........
and cue the host
spoken in an up beat energetic fashion. "Welcome to the show ____________
cue the guest's camera, lower lighting levels, lower microphone gain,
"We see that as..............
All cable news is the same format though, Koppel is correct in the push for ratings points.