WTF!!! Fox is doing the pool camera at the debate! And they won't be

[milkyway]

following the agreement prohibiting showing one candidate while the other is speaking.

How can the Dems allow this to happen? It's bad enough they rolled over on just about everything else in the debate negotiations, but now Fox will be the network providing what all voters will see. At least the other mainstream networks try to maintain the appearance of objectivity, but Fox has become so tied in with the bush administration that it's apparent to even regular Fox viewers that they are an extension of the repug party.

All it will take will be one bad reaction shot of Kerry (i.e. bush sr. looking at his watch) and Kerry will be screwed. When is the Democratic Party going to stop behaving like gentlemen and stand up and say no fucking way to this kind of crap?

Sorry if I seem like I'm going overboard, but the first debate is the most important and the repugs got the topic they wanted, it's in brother Jeb's state, they got the podium they wanted, the room temperature, and just about everything else...and Fox is manning the cameras! And the Dems wonder why we're thought of as the wimp party. I'm beginning to wonder if the Dems are really the people we want negotiating for our country.

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http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/28/debates.television/index.html

Specifically, the networks object to provisions in the agreement that place limits on their cameras, including prohibitions on shots of one candidate while the other is answering questions.

"Because of journalistic standards, we're not going to follow outside restrictions," said Paul Schur, a spokesman for Fox News, which is manning the pool camera for the first debate Thursday in Miami, Florida.
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I wonder what journalistic standards the Fox spokesman is referring to?

[Zero Gravitas]

1. All of the networks are against this

and if they show "reaction shots" its just as likely to hurt Dumbass Dubya... he might, oh I don't know, be caught smirking while Kerry makes a good point about what a fucking disaster the past four years have been.

[emulatorloo]

2. Fox Pool Camera from Dem Primary Debate wasn't so bad

Personally I will enjoy seeing shots of Smirky while Kerry is talking, and vice-versa. I doubt Kerry will be looking at his watch or picking his nose. The other one, I'm not so sure.

[K. F. Gibbons]

3. Fox says that while Kerry is speaking, they will cut to a shot of

OBL with thumbs up.