Anticipation

Posted by David Roberts at 4:51 PM on 16 Nov 2007

I'm sitting here at the venue for tomorrow afternoon's event: the Wadsworth Theater. It is ... large. I think around 1500 people are going to be sitting in here tomorrow, judging me for the poor quality of my shoes and my neglected fitness regime.

I hear from the organizers that press attention has gotten nuts. There will be many dozens of press folk in the press tent tomorrow, from lots of national media outlets.

If you watched the debate last night, you'll have a sense of exactly what we want our event not to be. Wolf Blitzer asked a cavalcade of inane, gimmicky questions designed to ... oh hell, what Matt said here.

Tomorrow, we'll be talking about substantive questions of politics and policy. We'll see how the media reacts.

Don't forget to watch the live webcast!

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Band-width challenged

Will there be an audio and/or text link?

by sunflower at 4:55 PM on 16 Nov 2007

Audio ok on MS IE - Firefox choked - text?

by sunflower at 5:11 PM on 16 Nov 2007

global goofiness

people think they will live forever and using global warming is just that. people hate the word natural . al gore needs help bad. he watches a movie and now they give him awards. face it people . nothing lasts forever no matter how many excuses you try to come up with. thank god gore wasn't elected president, you thought hitler was bad. whats global temps have to do with anything with the mideast and their beliefs.. wait til iran gets nukes then everyone around them will want nukes and then the global temps mean nothing.

by goofy gore at 4:45 AM on 17 Nov 2007

Great broadcast of Pres Cand Global Warming Forum

We shot our television years ago, so GRIST provided us access to the Forum!

What great work! Please pass it on.

Thanks for you blog.

PS commenter Goofy Gore must be off meds again...or drunk

by divineorder at 5:45 PM on 17 Nov 2007

GW Forum

Good show! I was there today, but why won't the link work to the webcast?

Marky48

by Marky48 at 9:14 PM on 17 Nov 2007

non-front-runners

The public editor of the New York Times, Clark Hoyt, has today generally praised the Times's coverage of the candidates:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/opinion/18pubed.html?_r ...

He notes that the Times has up in its website the videos of all the debates, and/or transcripts. Will the Grist debate receive equal consideration?

Our interpretation of the Grist debate will partly depend on what we think of its less than total attendance. Does it matter that not all the candidates were present? If so, how much?

Also, Hoyt mentions that in most media, including the Times, it is the front runners who receive almost all the coverage, to the great frustration of many readers. One editor, for whose opinion on this he asked, said that Yes, on the one hand, the pro-front-runner-coverage bias is unfortunately firmly in place; on the other hand, the newspapers have to acquaint readers with reality, and help them understand that some candidates are much more likely to be elected than others.

Hoyt seems to think that the Times has been remiss in not giving as much front-page coverage to Edwards as it has to Clinton and Obama; and that the next bunch, presumably Biden, Dodd and Richardson, deserve more attention than they have received. But by implication, he apparently does not mind that Gravel and Kucinich are basically cut dead, as though it would be irresponsible for a serious newspaper to waste any of its space and the reader's time on them.

That is a great pity, especially since Dennis Kucinich is one of the most principled, enlightened and articulate public servants that we have. I am glad that he chose to participate in the Grist debate.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

by caniscandida at 12:29 AM on 18 Nov 2007

get a life

floods have happened for millions of years , forest fire the same , hurricanes , typhoon's , nothing new. the temperature rises a degree in over 150 years and you have YOUR scientists coming out of the wall hollering were killing the planet !! YOU CAN'T STOP WHATS NATURAL !! stop ripping and brain washing people.are you trying to run a global prison ?

by goofy gore at 6:54 AM on 18 Nov 2007

Kucinich's near blackout by the media

The establishment is clearly afraid of Dennis Kucinich. Any of the others, especially the annointed "top tier", will continue to allow them to run the country. The insurance and drug company have all the candidates as shills for them calling forced health insurance UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE. Only Kucinich is not beholden to their contributions and calls for true not for profit health care with no insurance. He is going to scrap NAFTA the biggest disaster to our manufacturers and have the first truly green administration in history.
They can't ridicule his views so they ridicule his looks! Last time that happened we got Lincoln. Not so bad.

by linkunlovr at 1:09 PM on 18 Nov 2007
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