TV Networks Break Rules for Bush-Kerry Debate
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U.S. television networks refused to play by rules restricting camera angles and reaction shots during the presidential debate and that may have given a boost to John Kerry, analysts said on Friday.
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(Washington, DC) Sept. 29, 2004 - The first debate between President George W. Bush and his Democratic opponent Senator John Kerry on Thursday is setting up to be the most watched, most important of their
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Democratic candidate John Kerry's campaign demanded Thursday that the lights signaling when a speaker's time has expired during debates with President Bush be removed from the lecterns because they are distracting, but the commission hosting the debates refused.
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Campaigns and candidates like to think they can escape the laws of physics. So both the Bush and Kerry campaigns claim with equal certainty they have gained momentum out of last weekâs TV debates.
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WASHINGTON - John Kerry locked horns with George W. Bush in a tense televised debate tonight, accusing him of making a &quot;colossal error of judgment&quot; by invading Iraq while the president responded that his opponent was unfit to lead.
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Three days before their televised debate on foreign policy, President Bush ridiculed Senator John Kerry today, asserting that the Democratic challenger&#39;s shifting positions
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Variety - NEW YORK -- In one of television's most counterintuitive twists, none of the broadcast news divisions or cable news nets proclaimed George W. Bush the victor until sometime after 11 a.m. Wednesday. That's when Democratic challenger John Kerry ended a tense standoff and conceded the fraught race in a phone call to Bush.
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President George W. Bush and Democrat John Kerry came as close as they could to throwing away the tightly scripted rules their two campaigns had negotiated for the first presidential debate in Miami last night.
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Variety - More than 46.7 million viewers tuned in for the terse town hall debate between Sen. John Kerry and President Bush, a strong showing for a second presidential debate falling on the second-worst night in TV.
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Tonightâs debate between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry marks the culmination of months of campaigning, speeches and attack ads, and the clash will likely
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All over the country, media networks assert that John Kerry won the first presidential debate with a clear, decisive victory. The victor of the second debate is not quite so clear.
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Even a Yankees-Red Sox playoff game was no match for the TV audience's interest in the final debate between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry.
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George W. Bush and election rival John Kerry hammered away at each other's credibility ahead of their final debate while Democrats were outraged about a new anti-Kerry documentary.
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Democratic presidential challenger John Kerry appealed for an end to the TV advertising war that has marked his election battle against President George W. Bush.
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GEORGE Bush, accused of cribbing answers via a wire during his first TV debate, seems to be checking opponent John Kerry wasn&#39;t wearing one too.
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Wednesday's third and final debate between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry averaged 51.2 million viewers, Nielsen Media Research said Thursday.
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Last night saw a television debate between the two candidates in Ukraine's upcoming presidential election.