CNN's Coverage of the Debate

As CNN stated in the title of the news article dealing with the first Presidential debate, “McCain, Obama fight for title of ‘most qualified’.” This describes perfectly what went on during the first debate. It was two candidates trying to show the public that the other candidate is not qualified for the job. The media coverage that CNN provided only went over highlights of what was said by both John McCain and Barack Obama. This would be useful to the people who did not watch the debate live on TV. However, for people like me who did watch the debate this pretty much served the purpose of a reminder of the key points. Just in case you want to freshen up on some main points that you may not have been clear with. It also gives people a chance to decide for themselves who actually won the debate.
In the other CNN article, it states that there was no clear “knockout punch”, but there were certain attacks. This is true for all debates. One side is bound to take shots at the other side. In this debate it was clear that McCain was criticizing Obama for being too inexperienced. Obama on the other hand took shots at McCain for issues such as being wrong about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. This was a good way for CNN to break it down for readers. They first gave us the facts of what happened in the debate. This gave the reader a chance to make his or her own opinions about the debate. Then they gave us their point of view, so we can see what the media took out of this debate.

Crazy Obsession with Celebrities

What has the world come to when a person calling another person is blown up into a worldwide news story? On Yahoo News, there is an article about how George W. Bush made a call to the Dalai Lama supposedly to check up on his health and well-being. The media can sometimes be a little too much into the business of other people. They should leave people alone enough to let them call other people to have a conversation with them. All people deserve to have some privacy in their lives without being watched and written stories on. Personally I believe that this is the Bush campaign trying to make a good name for the President. This I find is just wrong. Not only is the media exploiting a person’s personal life that we should have no interest in anyway, but the President is using the Dalai Lama as a means of making him seem like a good citizen.
This article just goes to show that the media is way to infatuated with the celebrity world. God forbid you get well known and liked by a community, now you have no personal space because the newscasters will always be breathing down your neck. I do not mean to say that the whole thing of calling the Dalai Lama to see if he is ok is wrong, I am just simply stating that this should not be a world wide story and should be done for the right reasons.

Lack of knowledge in foreign policy

It seems as though that the Mccain camp is trying to do anything and everything possible to make Sarah Palin is capable when it comes to foreign policy. It has been reported that both John Mccain and Sarah Palin are going to be at the United Nations when President George Bush addresses the international leaders at the General Assembly. This is supposed to show the world that she is ready to take on the vice president role and that she can quickly connect with international affairs as they come up. It is quite amusing that it has not even been a month since Palin was chosen as Mccain’s running mate and she is already being criticized at national level. First the whole pregnancy of her daughter came around and now she is being made fun of on shows like Saturday Night Live for being incapable and naive. I certainly am interested to see how Mccain and Palin can fix the mess that has been created. She just does not seem like she is capable of being a good vice president with her only qualifications being the governor of Alaska. This is a position where it takes no knowledge of foreign policy. This adds to the fact that the Mccain camp is struggling to try and make people feel like they are close to one another. They have made sad tries such as Mccain attending a Nascar event, but this is way too late when Obama has already been playing basketball with ESPN announcers and talking sports. I just do not get why John Mccain would pick someone with as little experience as Sarah Palin does.