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Jeff Bercovici of the booklet is a fave of play of cable. In a new post, it makes a cord of the acute points about the presidential discussions, particularly the news of fox counters discussion-with the subject-discussions of Ron Paul. Initially, he recalls us that the media are players during presidential discussions — neutral participants not simply, but players. Naturally, the media are in oneself with the mixture — it is the version of McLuhan of marshal of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, “the act to observe a thing, changes this ‘ ‘ thing. While written Bercovici, “the operations of news of network prefer to pretend them are observers, not participating. In agreement with this fiction, they typically open discussions with all the newcomers, or neutral-resounding juniper to the top of the criteria for inclusion, like these ABC established for its own nearest discussion, to ensure of the also-rans remain on the touchlines.” The OK, thus the media form part of the mixture — the medium could not be the message, but it is the messenger. In the second place, Jeff specifies that even the “neutral” discussions are tilted towards the frontrunners. Naturally they are: If you observe a democratic discussion, you want to observe Hillary Rodham Clinton against Barack Obama against John Edwards, because you know that there is a probability of 99% that one of this trio will be the called democratic one. Here Jeff still: Generally, however, “open” the discussions always concentrate on some forerunners, leaving the candidates of second-line despaired to obtain a word inside. The even democratic destruction to be carried out uniformly been unaware of Chris Dodd to announce one “Speech-O-Meter” on its Web site, detecting how many minutes one allowed each candidate to speak. The fox can limit the discussion to the candidates whom it considers legitimates, but at least it makes relatively transparent fashion thus, rather than of employs the little of candidates as a quiet bearing pedestal bridge to suggest, wrongfully, than each one has an equal voice. And thus, Jeff concludes, the fox can limit the discussion to the candidates whom it considers legitimates, but at least it makes relatively transparent fashion thus, rather than of employs the little of candidates as a quiet bearing pedestal bridge to suggest, wrongfully, than each one has an equal voice. And, hé, not for nothing, the decision of the fox means that we will obtain to hear more detailed answers of the candidates who hold really a reasonable chance of the entry in the White House per year as of now. Those of us as who to complain about the discussions offering about the bites about nothing but about noise should to be grateful for that?