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In This Debate, CNN Is the Decider (archive)

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CNN’s efforts will play out on virtually every major television outlet.

It is offering other networks a free simulcast of its debate, albeit with stipulations that have irked some rivals. One requirement is that any mention of the event, including onscreen program guides, must include CNN in the title. CNN even distributed a specific graphic to be used for promotions, complete with a pair of giant CNN logos — and a tiny blank space allotted for other networks to include their own branding.

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The other networks must also accommodate one of the biggest changes in CNN’s production: advertisements.

General-election debates have not previously included ads, a precedent set by CBS, which produced the very first televised debate in 1960. At the time, though, Robert Sarnoff, then the president of NBC, argued otherwise. “It is an antiquated notion that a so-called public service program is not a public service if it is sponsored,” Mr. Sarnoff wrote. “By this odd reasoning, a broadcaster cannot serve the public unless he loses money.”

CNN apparently agreed; the channel will interrupt Thursday’s 90-minute event with two ad breaks, each set to last three and a half minutes. Under the simulcast rules, other networks cannot feature their own news anchors during those breaks, though they are free to sell their own ads.
 
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The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
In This Debate, CNN Is the Decider (archive)

(excerpt, you can check out the whole thing)

CNN’s efforts will play out on virtually every major television outlet.

It is offering other networks a free simulcast of its debate, albeit with stipulations that have irked some rivals. One requirement is that any mention of the event, including onscreen program guides, must include CNN in the title. CNN even distributed a specific graphic to be used for promotions, complete with a pair of giant CNN logos — and a tiny blank space allotted for other networks to include their own branding.

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The other networks must also accommodate one of the biggest changes in CNN’s production: advertisements.

General-election debates have not previously included ads, a precedent set by CBS, which produced the very first televised debate in 1960. At the time, though, Robert Sarnoff, then the president of NBC, argued otherwise. “It is an antiquated notion that a so-called public service program is not a public service if it is sponsored,” Mr. Sarnoff wrote. “By this odd reasoning, a broadcaster cannot serve the public unless he loses money.”

CNN apparently agreed; the channel will interrupt Thursday’s 90-minute event with two ad breaks, each set to last three and a half minutes. Under the simulcast rules, other networks cannot feature their own news anchors during those breaks, though they are free to sell their own ads.
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I’m not watching this gayass debate. Get fucked advertisers.
 
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I'll watch it. But I won't pay attention during the ad break.
 
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I'll watch it purely because Biden will be doped with every amphetamine known to mankind and there's a chance he strokes out and dies on national television.
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His head will explode straight outta scanners, and in a panic a secret service agent will shoot the only possible assassin within reach, killing Trump instantly. The election will become pure chaos as voters have to pick between Cackling Kamala and RFK
 
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I'll watch it purely because Biden will be doped with every amphetamine known to mankind and there's a chance he strokes out and dies on national television.
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Biden is going to have more drugs pumping though him than a Fallout character during the debate.

He may go so far as to start doing some superhuman feats during the debate.
 
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The leader of the Teamsters will speak at the Republican National Convention, an anti-union group is upset about this.

Business group urges Trump to reconsider Teamsters convention speech​

A right-leaning group that opposes labor unions has come out against former President Donald Trump‘s decision to invite the Teamsters president to address the Republican National Convention.

Sean O’Brien, the head of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, had expressed interest in speaking at both the Republican National Convention and the Democratic National Convention, prompting Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, to extend him an invitation.

O’Brien’s interest underscores the opening his organization sees as Trump steers the party in a populist direction. The former president has actively sought to earn O’Brien’s endorsement and, by extension, cut into President Joe Biden’s union support.

But not all Republican-aligned groups are happy with the speech, the first time a Teamsters leader will address a GOP convention. The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, an umbrella group of business interests, is opposing O’Brien’s presence at the convention in Milwaukee next month, citing his union’s work supporting Democrats and “an anti-business, anti-worker agenda.”

“The Teamsters, and specifically their president, have routinely pursued policies that would harm American workers, Main Street businesses, and the economy at large,” the group’s chairwoman, Kristen Swearingen, said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. “O’Brien’s policy priorities include forcing union membership on workers and destroying businesses if they do not cave to his demands.”

“Allowing O’Brien to take the stage at the Republican National Convention gives credibility to a dangerous policy agenda and a platform to an individual who ignores workers’ rights and opinions,” Swearingen continued. “The RNC and former President Trump should reconsider their invitation.”

The chairwoman pointed to a recent report from the Center for Union Facts that showed from 2019 to 2022, the union spent “over $9 million to left-leaning advocacy, while only directing $57,050 toward
bipartisan efforts and $7,877 toward GOP-led initiatives and campaigns.”

In a statement to the Washington Examiner, a Teamsters’s spokesperson pushed back against Swearingen’s comments and the coalition’s opposition to O’Brien. “A growing number of leaders in the Republican party are uncomfortable with the grip that corporatists—like those who fund the far-right Coalition—have on the American political system. This terrifies the Coalition,” the spokesperson said. “If the Coalition really supported democracy, they wouldn’t be so afraid of other voices in the room.”

The Trump campaign touted the former president’s economic policies and work to reverse inflation in a statement that reaffirmed his intention to have O’Brien’s speak in July.

“President Trump looks forward to Teamsters President O’Brien speaking to the issues of his rank-and-file members and all of America’s working men and women,” said Brian Hughes, a Trump campaign senior adviser.

“President Trump will bring tax relief and economic policies to reverse the inflation that hurts working families the most, and he will take on globalists who put open borders and the interests of multinational corporations ahead of our nation’s working people,” Hughes added. “President Trump’s America First Agenda is why so many working union members have joined the movement to Make America Great Again.”

Both Biden and Trump have attempted to woo union members ahead of their general election rematch in November. O’Brien, who heads the 1.3 million-person labor union, met with Trump twice this year, including a Mar-a-Lago meeting in January that Trump described as a “great dinner.” In March, Biden met with O’Brien at the Teamsters headquarters, where he emphasized his support of unions and the labor movement.

The union raised eyebrows when it donated $45,000 to the Republican National Committee’s convention fund earlier this year. Biden won the group’s endorsement in 2020, but the Teamsters have not yet endorsed during this year’s election.

The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace was created in 2005 to oppose the Employee Free Choice Act. The legislation died in the Senate after passing in the House, in part due to the coalition’s multimedia campaign against it. The group has also targeted the National Labor Relations Board’s “regulatory overreach.”
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When neocons say "hurt main street businesses" they need a kick in the nuts. Their shitty business policies from 20 years ago are 30% the reason we're in the spot we are. Just have everything get made in Chyna! Have your car made in Mexico! Roll up your sleeves and buy a $40,000 crack house 100 miles from the city and marry the white trash single mother who says she's born again, she goes to Bible Study!
 
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