Thu, Oct 14, 2004 10:40am ET

Send to a friend Print Version

4 of first 5 post-debate guests on MSNBC were Republicans

In the hour following the October 13 presidential debate between President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry, MSNBC's coverage oversampled Republican "analysis" of the debate: Four of the first five guests on the program were supporters of President Bush, and the second Kerry supporter was not interviewed until exactly an hour after the debate had concluded (11:31 p.m. ET). After interviewing Kerry political adviser Robert M. Shrum, the next four guests were Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), Bush campaign senior adviser Karen Hughes, former New York City mayor and Republican National Convention primetime speaker Rudolph Giuliani, and White House communications director Dan Bartlett.

The final four guests on the program were Kerry's daughter Vanessa Kerry, Commerce Secretary Donald L. Evans, former Democratic presidential candidate General Wesley Clark, Joe Trippi, campaign manager for former Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont governor Howard Dean, resulting in a total of five Republican guests versus four Democrats.

—A.S.

Comments (0)
 
Post a new comment

You must be a registered user to post and flag comments on this site.

Please log in or sign up to post in this forum.

Media Matters uses a taxonomy structure to help readers find information on various subjects. You can view all items by issue (the broadest category), view an issue's subissue, and even drill down to a particular topic. You can also look at items according to the related media personality, show/publication and network/publisher.

Social bookmarking sites allow you to save links to interesting items and share them with other users. Some, like Digg.com, also allow you to discuss these items and promote them to wider audiences by "digging" the ones that you like. To start using these services, simply register with the site in question.