Did Bush think networks were going by rule, knowing 1st Lady, twins, Sen. Cain, et al., were used to seeing him ransack his mind for stray facts.
The two campaign managers' painstaking 32-page advance agreement provides:
"When a candidate is speaking, either in answering a question or making his closing statement, TV coverage will be limited to the candidate speaking. There will be no TV cut-aways to any candidate who is not responding to a question while another candidate is answering a question."
The prohibition reflects a camera technique that many observers think hurt Vice President Al Gore in the 2000 debates and the first President Bush, the current president's father, in 1992.
As noted in a Knight Ridder article, by breaking one of the debate rules that campaign managers for President Bush and Sen. John Kerry had agreed to, TV producers made the face-off in Miami on Thursday night much better television.
(The thought in the title of this post is my own and not from the article.)
"When a candidate is speaking, either in answering a question or making his closing statement, TV coverage will be limited to the candidate speaking. There will be no TV cut-aways to any candidate who is not responding to a question while another candidate is answering a question."
The prohibition reflects a camera technique that many observers think hurt Vice President Al Gore in the 2000 debates and the first President Bush, the current president's father, in 1992.
As noted in a Knight Ridder article, by breaking one of the debate rules that campaign managers for President Bush and Sen. John Kerry had agreed to, TV producers made the face-off in Miami on Thursday night much better television.
(The thought in the title of this post is my own and not from the article.)
posted by Sid Cottingham | 9:29 PM
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