Sentences with phrase «of television debates»

'» So she did — «Your Better Together campaign is rubbish» — and promptly found herself with Douglas Alexander and Ramsay Jones, the prime minister's special advisor for Scotland, sitting in her front room, prepping her for a series of television debates.

In the US, which has a longer tradition of television debates, a prime example was Lloyd Bentsen's dismissal of fellow vice presidential candidate Dan Quayle: «Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.»

Not exact matches

There's been a lot of debate in media industry circles about whether the media helped create the Donald Trump phenomenon by constantly writing about him and putting him on television in an attempt to drive traffic and ratings.

Smith often compares his company to CNN, and in many ways Vice has become the equivalent for many younger viewers who no longer watch traditional television, especially when it uses stale old formats like panels of aging white men debating politics.

Over the weekend, in a debate on local television, Ms. Lesko called for an investigation into the claims of sexual misconduct by Mr. Trump, a striking statement from a candidate who had otherwise praised the president.

Of an estimated 100 million television viewers — 10 times the number of people who tuned in for The Voice's season 1 finale — most stay up past the «main event» to watch former secretaries of the U.S. government debate nuclear policy with astronomer Carl SagaOf an estimated 100 million television viewers — 10 times the number of people who tuned in for The Voice's season 1 finale — most stay up past the «main event» to watch former secretaries of the U.S. government debate nuclear policy with astronomer Carl Sagaof people who tuned in for The Voice's season 1 finale — most stay up past the «main event» to watch former secretaries of the U.S. government debate nuclear policy with astronomer Carl Sagaof the U.S. government debate nuclear policy with astronomer Carl Sagan.

As this excellent and informative book details, even the idea of live television from the Moon was a matter of heated debate, and there were moments when it might've gone the other way.

Asked about a Bloomberg story that referenced ongoing internal debates about the investment bank, Ermotti said today in an interview with Bloomberg Television that it's «very difficult to see the merit» of those reports.

Outlooks on the most engaging tech, media and telecom debates such as 5G wireless, the evolution of television, video games as spectator sport, the dominance of software - as - a-service and more.

While most people will tune in to the television, radio, or even the mobile web for their debate coverage, we're seeing large numbers of users install new applications for the first time to engage with the debate.

Two times as many 18 - to -24-year-old watched the first GOP debate of the presidential election on Snapchat as watched it on television.

Instead of holding the televised debate in a sterile and controlled television studio, I would love to see the party leader's demonstrate their debating skills in front of a live audience.

Federal candidates are offered free time for debates, and so it is important that citizens at least hold the line on existing regulations of the Canadian Radio and Television Commission.

Considerable debate is going on as to how much influence the religious right has, the extent to which it influenced the results of the 1980 election, and how many people listen regularly to right - wing preachers on television.

Throughout the 1970s debate over the effectiveness of the new television ministries raged between the mainline churches and the electronic - church groups.

Nussbaum is right to say that the «level of debate and reporting in the major newspapers and at least some of the television networks is impressively high.»

Perhaps the Illinois farmers who drove into the towns from miles around to hear the Lincoln - Douglas debates were a different kind of people from the millions in their living rooms in front of the television screen.

So I look forward to a spirited yet cordial debate on Tuesday with Bill Nye, the «Science Guy» of television fame.

To extend the analogy to television, the World Series is a serial drama, like True Detective or Homeland, something that can bore you, thrill you, confuse you, make you debate its value and worth over a long span of time.

But if debates are a product of the television age, what would the Internet equivalent be?

The team also discuss the television debates, politicians» use (and abuse) of facts and figures, Tony Blair, and UKIP's strategy for electoral success.

The debate last night was kind of like Kennedy - Nixon: Johnson won if you watched it on television, but everyone who listened to it on the radio said it was hands - down Kurland's victory.

[1] In these elections, televised debates — which Craig Allen Smith compares to the Super Bowl, referring to both as «innovations of the 1960s that pitted the survivors of elimination contests against each other in spectacles made for national television» [2]-- have become increasingly prominent.

And I am not suggesting that tweets from the chamber should be protected by parliamentary privilege... But in this age of immediate crowd - sourced mass communication, the idea that the Commons chamber can cut itself off from modern technology and social media is as doomed as when written reports of Commons debates were banned in the 18th century, or when discussion of current Commons business on the radio was not allowed until the 1950s, or, indeed, as obsolete as the ban on television itself before 1989.

While the general public is mainly inclined to live tweet television programs (don't get me started), the practice is increasingly being applied at conferences, debates, legal proceedings and all manner of other events at which potentially compelling tweet content is continually generated.

And it eliminates the inconvenience of listening to turgid second - reading debates about far too much legislation that can just as easily be monitored on television from the comfort of an office.

The admittance of television and radio, which was so hotly debated only 20 years or so ago, has greatly added to our democracy.

I am sending a copy of this request for debate to all television stations and all newspapers in New York.

Then came the first television debate, and the eruption of Cleggmania.

Much has changed in the 65 years since Clement Attlee declined the opportunity to talk to an obsequious television reporter, but Cowley is not sure that everybody yet appreciates how the television debates have changed utterly the nature of election campaigns.

One of the debates would take place in Buffalo, sponsored by the Buffalo News and public television and radio stations WNED, and WBFO.

Four of the candidates running for Governor of New York will be participating in a debate airing on public television and radio stations across the state.

Astorino announced that he has accepted five televised debate invitations from a variety of hosts and sponsors, but which Cuomo has not accepted, plus an additional multi-candidate debate on Buffalo's public television station that Governor Cuomo has accepted.

New York City's premiere political television news show, NY1's Inside City Hall, has been hosting candidate debates in the weeks leading up to the September 13 state legislative primaries, as it has ahead of past elections.

Her period in the department was marked by much public debate about the future of television, about digital broadcasting and the structure and financing of the BBC.

This was the main contribution to the debate of the night's third speaker, television producer and director Martin Durkin.

But if Gordon Brown pulls a last - minute rabbit out of his hat or if David Cameron goofs in the last television debate, the outcome could easily be reversed, because such events can move 5 % or more of the electorate.

The governor told stories of his father's habit, as a lieutenant governor in Albany, of watching television, using any program or commercial as a pretext for debating with his senior aide Fabian Palomino.

Clegg has been one of the strongest defenders of Britain's place in the EU, taking on Nigel Farage in a television debate about the issue before the European elections in May that saw the Liberal Democrats come fifth and Ukip top the polls.

«We had television debates for the leadership of the Conservative party.

«I think television debates will help engage the public, help actually answer some of the questions at the heart of the election, would help bring the election alive in some way.

As Cameron's circle intensify their preparations for Thursday's television debate, by issuing pleas at Tory HQ for fresh ideas, shadow ministers have told the leadership that their «big idea» is too vague and needs to be scrapped in favour of practical policies.

Four of the candidates running for New York state governor will be participating in a debate shown on public television and heard on public radio.

Four of the candidates running for governor of New York will be participating in a debate shown on public television and heard on WAMC Wednesday night.

The spat between the prime minister and the major broadcasters has deepened, with Tory peer and former television boss Michael Grade accusing the stations of «playing politics» over David Cameron's refusal to participate in all three planned TV election debates.

They would be in uproar upon learning that a mob had tried to physically force its way into an American television studio and blocked the roads outside, trying to prevent the filming of a political debate which featured a robust and forthright atheist.

Though the campaigns of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his Republican rival Rob Astorino have tentatively agreed to a television debate, the two candidates continued to spar on Wednesday over the circumstances.

Finally, I suggested that with Lord Mandelson refusing to debate Ken Clarke on television, that it was time to change the Standing Orders of the House of Commons to allow Lord Mandelson to answer questions at the Despatch Box in the Commons and be held to account for his department's actions in the elected chamber.

The format and content of upcoming Republican debates became increasingly uncertain on Monday after Donald Trump's campaign said the real estate mogul would negotiate his terms directly with television executives instead of as part of a joint effort with his rivals.

Instead of an actual debate, Andy & Carl could each display their «prowess» on live television & let the voters decide!