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I loathe the conventions, but this will make it worse Roland00 Send a noteboard - 01/09/2012 03:52:15 AM
since these things are all so scripted to begin with, have the speakers submit their scripts to the major news outlets who will be broadcasting the conventions. these networks then run fact checkers on all the talking points in each speech and put up a small blurb with the actual truth each candidate is trying to twist to support their platform. we all already know each candidate is trying to twist and spin the facts to portray their opponents as something other than what they are, let's have their words thrown back at them in real time coverage too!


One of the few things that is good about the conventions is that it is for 3 or 4 days the media can't filter the whole damn thing. It is good that for occasionally we get things live and unfiltered. Wait an hour later or the next day in the newspaper for the media to call flat out lies bs.

Now I personally loathe the conventions for other reasons. Conventions are not about how the political parties are really going to govern, this is just in a window into their souls and shows how they would act without reality kicking in. It is pure Id. Sure it is pure BS but it shows the best and worse of the parties.
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That similarity occured to me, too. *NM* - 31/08/2012 09:37:22 PM 248 Views
and how fact checks the fact checkers? *NM* - 31/08/2012 05:19:45 PM 227 Views
Fox, presumably. - 31/08/2012 06:05:56 PM 752 Views
the fact checkers tend be journalist and deserve all the trust that goes with that *NM* - 01/09/2012 10:36:18 AM 251 Views
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I loathe the conventions, but this will make it worse - 01/09/2012 03:52:15 AM 533 Views
you're talking about what people who already follow these things do - 01/09/2012 06:40:42 AM 474 Views
We fundamentally disagree - 01/09/2012 01:54:26 PM 661 Views

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