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Gaudy media hype for the debate.


Posted: Sep 26, 2016

What does "Live All-Day Coverage" mean regarding an event that hasn't happened and won't happen until this evening? Well, they mean coverage of hours and hours and hours of talking heads saying nothing, while real news reporting gets shunted to the side (as if they ever do any of that now anyway). After the event, there will be hours and hours and hours of so-called experts telling us who "won" the debate, who misstated "facts" (the media's facts), etc. Who needs it? I won't be watching the debate mainly because these things aren't real debates at all, and especially I won't be watching the post-debate "analysis" by "experts" who can barely find the floor when they get up in the morning. And what - someone makes a "gaffe" or gets in a "good zinger", someone "looks Presidential" or doesn't... ...and that's how we're supposed to decide who to vote for? I don't see how anyone could be undecided at this point, but I'm not, and life is too short for these circuses that the media like to call "debates" but which are really all about ratings and selling ad time.;

Told my supervisor I'd be available for work - during the so-called debate.

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I am so not interested in these stupid debates, which are all about "gotcha moments" and media ad dollars.

If there's anyone on my team who somehow (how?) doesn't know who to vote for, that's just fine with me. They can watch the debates while I take the money they might have earned doing something more practical.

Here's hoping that there are a lot of debate-watchers on my team!

I agree with you about other news - anonie

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I am so sick of politics. I have never liked it at all from a child. I could fast see it was like a used car salesman trying to sell you a car or a shoe salesman, who try to pressure you into something.

I could care less about all this. I want to hear news, not constant elections and politics.

I would like to hear Hillary went to jail and anyone else, but she has seen to it that they all have been pardoned. Gosh. What more evidence of guilt for the whole government and her part in it.

It should be a good evening to go to the - supermarket. Shorter lines!

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I imagine there will be - some

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drinking games going on tonight. Like take a shot every time you hear "uge" or "tremendous."

Can't think of anything for the other one, just hope she doesn't fall off the stage.

I've made my decision and I'm not listening to any more that the media has to say about the circus.

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