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...absurdly specific guidelines the parties hashed out before the event have already been widely reported—and ridiculed—even in the generally pliant mainstream American media. Instead of a meaningful discourse, Americans heard prepared answers to questions on pre-approved issues in a pre-negotiated format. Friday’s program was not a debate by traditional standards: It resembled a contest to see who could go ninety minutes without slipping-up more than it did an effort to delve into the complicated substance of pressing issues like the bubbling quagmire of Iraq, nuclear proliferation...
...G.O.P. opponent, Governor William Weld, such as roaming from the lectern and asking direct questions. What Kerry's camp got were three debates rather than the two that Bush's campaign initially said it wanted. Getting three contests "was much more important to us than any detail of the format," says Kerry campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill. A challenger always wants as many chances to stand on the same stage as the sitting President and take some shots, and Kerry thinks the debates are a place where he can shine...
...throwback to the 1950s. And fifty years behind its time, the newscast failed. By August, there were rumblings that the CBS affiliate would can the format. By November, Carol Marin and her hardcore local news posse were toast. Their attempt at de-sensationalizing local news had only revealed the extent to which Americans (or at least Chicagoans) had become accustomed to the current sorry, sensationalized state of news in America...
...Julia, the teaching format surprised...
...don’t know what format these records are stored in, or whether they’re accessible to Google engineers. We don’t know for how long they’re stored, or whether they’re backed up on tape. What we do know, however, as their privacy policy is quite clear on this point, is that if Google stores this information, and if it’s accessible to them, that they will happily share it with a court if they’re asked to do so by law?...