Sentences with phrase «of debate moderators»

Commission on Presidential Debates member Michael McCurry discusses the pros and cons of crowdsourcing questions, the role of debate moderators, and inviting third - party candidates to join the debates.

None of those reporters who were running those debates and none of the producers and none of the debate moderators used what we had dug up for them, which could have been the basis for one question at least.

Not exact matches

Fox News Channel debate moderators (L - R), Chris Wallace, Megyn Kelly and Brett Baier, start the first official Republican presidential candidates debate of the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign in Cleveland, Ohio, August 6, 2015.

Newton Minow, the former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair who is a board member of the Commission on Presidential Debates, recently said that presidential debate moderators today have been facing more criticism than they did in years past.

The CNN anchor moderated a debate between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney during the 2012 election and took a lot of heat for doing exactly what Fox News» Wallace has said a moderator should avoid.

The debates the newspaper held last month were made ludicrous by the rigidity of the rules and moderator alike, but the paper redeemed itself with its late polls.

And now, of course, comes his attack on Fox News host and debate moderator Megyn Kelly (full disclosure: I'm a Fox News contributor.)

However arguments around the «burning question of our time» as Munk Debate moderator Rudyard Griffiths expressed it, was a chance to view champions on both sides of the economic trenches go at it hand to hand.

A version of this article appears in print on October 5, 2012, on Page A13 of the New York edition with the headline: After a New - Look Debate, a Harsh Light Falls on the Moderator.

While debate moderators and election commentators focus on economic issues, the religious rhetoric of the presidential candidates appears to go mostly unnoticed - except by the key Republican voting bloc being courted.

And the authors of Scripture are like the moderators in this debate.

Being as these candidates continually bring religion into the campaign by stressing how religious they are I would hope that the moderators of the this debate will actually question them on the actual tenets of their beliefs.

There are many more issues of more weighty importance that they might talk about in the debate, but CNN moderators seem bent on sticking to the gotcha questions.

In an effort to fix this mess, we have a few suggestions of moderators who should take over for the next presidential debates — to make things much more interesting.

Fast forward to 2016 GOP debates... Thw moderator asks «which of you believe in EVOLUTION»?

Remember at one of the Republican debates, when the moderator said something to the affect of «if there is an uninsured man with a life - threatening illness should we just let him die?»

This is not your personal playpen and I hope the moderators uphold their ethos of free debate.

Several of us noticed a similar effect during the Democratic YouTube debate this summer — citizens asked better and more substantive questions of politicians than had reporters or the moderator at previous candidate debates.

The role of the moderator in a debate is to ensure that the debate flows smoothly and that it is conducted in a decent manner.

The audience was nothing short of rowdy and debate moderator Errol Louis had to warn them on numerous occasions that they would be kicked out if they continued to scream and interrupt the candidates as they answered questions.

Shedding any pretense of civility and party unity, Donald J. Trump overwhelmed the first Republican presidential debate on Thursday night by ripping into his rivals and the moderators alike, but also drew fire from Jeb Bush and others who are seeking to stop his breathtaking surge.

The presidential hopefuls, Ms Samia Yaaba Nkrumah, former Chairperson of the party and daughter of Ghana's first President Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Mr Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, a former General Secretary of the party, Mr Bright Oblitei Akwetey, who has twice contested for the flag - bearer position, and Mr Agyapong, a businessman, were quizzed by the moderator, Prof. Kwame Karikari, on issues on the Ghanaian economy, industrialisation, agriculture and health in the country's first - ever inter-party presidential debate sponsored by TV Africa.

We talked with Brian Lehrer, noted radio host and the moderator of three 2013 mayoral forums to date, about why candidates are willing to engage in so many forums and debates.

Here's an alternative approach: put all of the candidates, whether it's 10, 12, 15 or more, onstage for a single debate session without a moderator or host.

The first debate of this election cycle is currently live, and the moderator is Lester Holt - a journalist for NBC.

He accused the FBI and the media of conspiring in Clinton's favor, and brushed off a reminder from Chris Wallace, the debate moderator, that the peaceful transfer of power is «one of the prides of this country.»

Trump retweeted a doctored image of Megyn Kelly and an Internet meme calling the debate moderator a «bimbo» for pictures she posed for alongside a 2010 GQ magazine article.

Neither of the candidates, Republican Ken Cuccinelli and Democrat Terry McAuliffe, issued an outright call for McDonnell to leave office when asked about the controversy by the debate's moderator.

Dietl urged the host / moderator of the upcoming debate to «keep control of their own red light, green light, one two three» and strictly enforce candidate speaking time limits.

Over the course of an hour - long debate at the Woodstock Playhouse Monday, October 24, Congressional candidates Democrat Zephyr Teachout and Republican John Faso answered moderators» questions on trade, executive authority, the battle against ISIS and other issues, all while circling back to core campaign themes.

Donald Trump floats the possibility of banning moderators from the debates since he thinks the system is «rigged» against him.

Trump also lashed out in the aftermath of a disappointing first debate with Clinton, scolding the moderator, NBC's Lester Holt; criticizing a beauty pageant winner for her physique and raising the prospect of an all - out attack on Bill Clinton's marital infidelities in the final stretch of the campaign.

Debate moderator Lester Holt will be under pressure tonight as well amid questions over how the press should engage the lies and exaggerations of Trump.

The mayor is also one of the few who liked debate moderator Jim Lehrer's performance.

Trump was not happy with Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, one of the debate's three moderators, saying she «behaved very badly personally» with her tough questions.

Within minutes of the start of the debate, the audience — which appeared to include groups of supporters of each of the three candidates — howled and heckled, drowning out the candidates and drawing sharp rebukes from debate moderator and NY1 anchor Errol Louis.

During the first presidential debate last month, Donald Trump insisted that policy worked well in New York, in spite of objections from Hillary Clinton and moderator Lester Holt that a federal judge ruled it unconstitutional in 2013.

The second and final Democratic mayoral primary debate on Wednesday was a frenetic hour - long affair in which Mayor Bill de Blasio spent much of his time on the defensive, facing probing questions from debate moderators and tough criticism from his opponent, Sal Albanese.

Even on his top policy priority of campaign finance reform, he wrestled with his words and had to be pulled back twice by debate moderator Errol Louis of NY1 when he strayed to attack de Blasio in the middle of explaining his proposal.

«They would talk about these things... Imagine if the public — and debate moderators — pressured presidential candidates to talk about the country's electrical grid or emerging disease threats instead of abortion and transgender bathrooms.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- Mayors of 21 cities in Florida on Friday called on the moderators of next week's presidential debates in Miami to ask candidates how they would deal with rising sea levels caused by climate change, a concern of the state's coastal communities.

The mayors provided debate moderators three questions on climate change, all of which were directed to Rubio.

Yet at this forum, an on - campus debate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology over whether the university should divest the fossil fuel holdings within its $ 11 billion endowment, might not have happened if market forces properly priced the economic and environmental costs of climate change, a theme that Anthony Cortese, the event moderator, alluded to at the outset.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Fox News Channel host and moderator Megyn Kelly during the first Republican presidential debate — the origin of their feud.

October 31, 2015 • A lackluster performance from the moderators of this week's Republican presidential debate made «the media» the laughing stock of the Internet.

For instance, I recall the giddy excitement of one ED in» 08» er when the moderator asked a question they'd pushed as we watched the third McCain - Obama debate.

Anthony is moderator of the annual International Summit on the Teaching Profession, the Global Education Industry Summit and debates at the World Innovation Summit for Education.

Sadly (but not surprisingly), the moderator of tonight's debate, the Norwich Bulletin's Ray Hackett, DID NOT ask Malloy the pivotal question.

The 10 sitting governors who were assembled as a single panel for Education Nation — more governors collected than at any time since a meeting of the National Governors Association, according to moderator Brian Williams — debated everything from budget reductions for education to the merits of the Obama administration's decision to wave NCLB's Annual Yearly Progress requirements.

For the last ten years he has been the moderator of The Review Panel, a debating forum of contemporary art criticism hosted by the National Academy Museum in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.