Editor’s note: This post has been changed from its original version to correct erroneous information.
A small bit of media news today, peeps.
As some of you may know, I’ve been hosting a brief segment within the Sunday morning newscasts on 8NewsNow called PoliticsNOW. It’s featured brief interviews with candidates and consultants, mostly focused on the 2012 election.
Well, as of now, PoliticsNOW is getting longer. Starting this weekend, the show will expand to a full half-hour. It will air at 5:30 p.m. on Saturdays and 9 a.m. 9:30 a.m. on Sundays. (Sadly, the Sunday morning airing will last only until Aug. 12, when NFL football will kick me out of the time slot. But the 5:30 p.m. Saturday airings will last until Nov. 10, when the show will end its run.)
The goal of PoliticsNOW is to provide a forum where candidates answer questions and voters get information they’ll need in November, when they have to make key decisions about the country’s future. If that sounds a little dramatic, it’s not: We get the privilege of living in a country where we have the chance to change course every two, four or six years. But to do that, we need to be informed. And there’s few better ways than hearing from the candidates themselves.
I hope you’ll watch the show, especially this week’s first extended edition, which features a special guest, state Sen. Steven Horsford, who’s running for Congress in the new 4th District. We’ll have interviews with would-be state senators in key districts, as well as other features that I and producer Ian Russell devise along the way. And the shows will be archived online, so you’ll be able to go back and catch up if you miss one. We hope it will be entertaining and informative.
So, set the TiVos, sit back and enjoy PoliticsNOW.
This is great news indeed, as we need more chances to hear from the candidates with serious journalists like you Steve asking tough questions – I’ll be tuning in for sure – KUDOS!
Ralston stutters when he gets excited. You seem to get quiet and soft spoken when you are trying to get at the meat of your target.
Somehow I don’t believe that will happen with Horseford. You like him too much to get any really challenging questions answered. And you all think he is a shoe in anyway ( probably and sadly correct on this) so why bother, as far as I am concerned I am stuck with this guy no matter what box I check.
I always feel dirty after thinking about mr. arrogant Steven Horseford.
Just my opinion and it probably stinks but I can always use some mouthwash.
Congratulations! Excellent addition to the schedule for us political junkies. Wouldn’t miss it!
If a politician enjoys the interview, it was full of softball questions.
Steve you are truly suspect of failing number 5 from the outset. You like that guy too much to be truly impartial.
http://www.mediahelpingmedia.org/training-resources/journalism-basics/338-10-tips-for-interviewing-politicians
It’s up to you, of course, but how about waiting until you actually see the interview before criticizing the interview? Novel concept, I know, but the final product may surprise you. At the very least, you’d have actual examples with which to back up your critique.
I will be out of town and out of range too. I will try to give it a look if there is a web cast, I don’t leave the PC on when I am gone so the tivo like feature is not available for long weekends. One day or overnight sure, but 4 days no.
The trouble is you have shown your “like” for Horseford often in the past, I am not critisizing the interview, just letting my belief be known in this forum.
From your twitter feed I suspect he left happy. Never a good indication challenging questions were actually answered. You may have asked them but I bet he spun around them and you did not get what I would consider an answer.
But kudos to you for being as public as you are, that counts.
It is rather odd or somewhat naïve, when your ‘belief’ is that a politician must feel bad after being interviewed.
No, Jerry……sigh…. I said the politician should not be happy about the interview, never said the feeling should be unhappy. But you will always spin it so, don’t worry be happy. Horseford is the likely winner according to all the pundits now.
Yes, Steve, that’s what you said. And, no, there was no spin. If you can’t address it, leave it. It is, in fact, odd when you belive a good, honest, stright forward politician must “be unhappy” after being interviewed. I never was.
You are the only one in this thread attributing the phrase “be unhappy” to what I posted Jerry. Stop the spin.
It would have been a compliment had Steven Horseford said something like “thanks for holding my feet to the fire” or “those were some tough questions you asked” those types of responses would have been a compliment to the interviewer. But Steven Horseford said in his tweet “@SteveSebelius Enjoyed it Steve. Thanks for the interview! #nv04″ To me that is not a compliment it was thank you for the forum to send my message out.
Now all that remains is to see the program as I will do via the archive when I return on Tuesday.
Good job Steven. I’m there with you!
You asked about pay for play and he refused to answer while offering his own idea of what he does,. If no pay for play then why even put that out? Then you give him the out and he still avoided it. Ethics my eye.
Poker stars, he paid it back. But you give him an out again and he spins it as good for Nevada. He is not a business owner or manager. It should have been a casino going. He lies about the funds and spins back to transparency, only because he got cought.
Now you point out he is a shoe in and he responds with how good he claims he is. Culinary academy a plug for the union. He wants his peeps to support him.
Oh no! I want to know about the money. He once again got his message out and you helped him right before the commercial.
How could he work across the aisle? His answer is Washington is broken and wants the other side to compromise. Then its all about his grandma. No one is ending these programs for the present ratepayers, he is full of crap.
How to cut spending, he spins to middle class jobs! WTF.
So he distances from Obama on the middle class by “supporting an approach that helps the middle class” You couldn’t even get him to stand with Obama. You should have called him out for name calling his opponent.
So Steven Horseford is suddenly part of the middle class? “We are the consumers, we are the majority” Just who is this “we” he so lovingly refers as though he is part of it? Then he makes his pitch once again.
So he thinks because he had full control of the Legislature in 09 with no viable resistance that he can do the same thing in Washington? He did not work with republicans or Gibbons, he walked all over them then in 11 he was so mad he couldn’t have his way once again, too many republicans and he wouldn’t work with them. I smell cowpies burning.
Lower tax rate than the secretary, more cowpies. Investment income is taxed at a lower rate because the money used to invest was earned and taxed at the regular rate in the first place.
Culinary Academy is 226. This is union and to give him the lead for govt creating jobs? The two of you spun this out and around.
Get rid of a tax? He did not answer it, he gave you a hedge and its not even a green one. His answer indicates he would NOT remove any tax at all. Just re direct the money.
A love fest. Glad I did not stay home for this one.
Steve, nobody is making you watch the show, any more than anybody’s making you read this blog or comment on it. If it’s not to your liking, there are tons of other things on TV and around the Internet that you might enjoy more. And while I want as many people as possible to watch the show, read this blog, read my column, etc., I would never want anybody to feel they must do so. If you find it not to your tastes, by all means move on.
Second, is it at all possible that your oft-expressed views (made without benefit of actually seeing the show) colored your view once you did? If you had expressed no opinion beforehand, I might put more stock in your post-show remarks. But knowing you had prejudged it — and the evidence is above — I can’t help but think you found what you expected to find.
In any case, I’ll be doing these until Election Day, so feel free to tune in. Or don’t. It’s entirely up to you.
Then how about pushing your guest to answer the original questions. I have watched you numerous times. You do let them get away with changing the questions. This one was utterly predictable because you are an obvious supporter of Steven Horseford. You let him change every one of your questions and made no attemp to get him to answer what you first asked.
My take on what was comming came from his twitter message to you, it was simple and I will be reading and watching as many who do not agree with your politics do. I hope to see some real answers too.
Like the money indicates Horseford is a shoe in. But I still want to know just how he thinks he is in the middle class. Not that any of you will force him to explain it or anything else for that matter.
I owe you an apology Steve. From the interviews I have now watched. Seven H, Scott H and Michael R. I see your interview style more as ask the questions and let them be either forthcoming or evasive as they wish. You may prompt a bit more in some cases but now I think I get it. Your questions do hit the subjects on many of our minds, mine included. Interesting Steven H has been the most evasive of the three I have watched to date. That could be my own take but refusing to answer outright is pretty obvious.
So your style seems to be let them hang themselves or not. Its their choice and they seem to appreciate it though I think Seven Horseford should be reviewing just how bad he came off on that interview.
Keep em coming. Sorry for the first blush hop to conclusions, the swim back is long and cold but it makes its point. (Phantom Tollbooth)
TTTTT ok the T works, Steven Horseford. I can spell it! ;)
Well! Look who agrees with me!
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