Vice presidential candidates JD Vance and Tim Walz are set to debate this Tuesday. Ahead of the Oct. 1 event, the broadcaster announced that moderators Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan will not fact-check either candidate — Walz and Vance will be responsible for fact-checking one another. The news prompted political scientist Norman Ornstein to lament that though CBS was once “the gold standard for television news,” both “those days and their standards are long gone.”
Ornstein isn’t the only voice objecting to CBS’ announcement, with the condemnation of their choice widespread on social media after CNN previously declined to fact-check candidates during the debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump earlier this year, followed by ABC opting to include brief fact-checks from moderators in the presidential debate between Trump and Kamala Harris.
According to CBS News’ editorial standards, the moderators are there to facilitate the conversation/debate between the candidates, as well as enforce the debate’s rules. However, they leave the responsibility to the candidates when it comes to fact-checking as part of the broadcast. CBS does plan to offer its own form of live fact-checking — but it will be online, rather than directly from the moderators, via its CBS News Confirmed Unit journalists in an online blog.
I refuse to upvote any post woth the word “slammed” in the title
“Article title slammed by Feathercrown”
That really ripped me.
good.
You misspelled “bad”.
A vanishingly small number of US voters are even going to watch this. There is wildcard baseball and a bunch of other crap happening at the exact same time.
Theres no point in watching it without fact checking and moderation, without those its just gonna be republican propaganda with occasional interjections by easily ignored sanity.
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So they’re just going to let Vance fearmonger the country into a race war.
Cool. Cool cool cool.
We’re gonna have a proven liar on our network. We’re not going to do anything to point that out.
So sick of the over-use of “slam”. Where it does work? “Car door slams finger.” Elsewhere? No. Never.
And wrestling news.
And in porn news.
Domestic violence news
All good answers! I love you Internet people!
What about after the words “Everybody get up, it’s time to” or “come on and”?
Easy blah blah obliterates/annihilates their opponent in alleged debate.
We might as well go for the most obscene words at this point.
Mysticpickle drops bombshell on journalists. Entire industry collapses!
Whatever happened to "criticize?’
That’s been turned against the critic. Some people view “criticizism” the same as nitpicking and complaining.
Too boring! We need drama, baby! Endless, exhausting drama brings those sweet, sweet clicks! That’s why we love Trump!
Vance will be fact checked way more.
Fuck CBS
He says she says. What a way to run a debate. Terrible idea!
This is a requirement of modern right-populist politics. They won’t play defense, so they just say crap and you’re always chasing the latest nonsense and never get to make a point.
Of course the counter to this is for Walz to make this a non-stop couch-fucking roast from minute one. I’m talking opening statement is about upholstery, fabric texture, visualize choices for lubricant and material combos. Just go all in on the furniture abuse right away.
<Walks walks onto stage and goes to shake Vance’s hand> “Hey, how was the tour of Ashely Furniture? Sorry I couldn’t join you… Did you find any attractive couches?”
“‘Test’ any out?”
I feel like Walz will be able to call Vance on whatever bullshit he’s peddling… but not having a neutral fact checker is a terrible idea.
And also Walz doesn’t need to be wasting all of his allotted time fact checking an admitted liar. Not a ton of actual “News” in this article, but several of the referenced comments were funny/made good points like that.
Time concerns aside, this will just make GOP say “they have their own idea of truth”. Which is correct but the causality is vice versa.
Vance can spew out so much BS that Walz won’t be able to make any points of his own.
The Gish Gallop seems to have become a common right wing tactic.
Flood the field with so much bullshit that the opponent can’t address moat of it the time available.
That is Trump’s tactic, which worked wonders when debating against Biden. I was glad when Harris shut that shit down by basically saying “I told you he was going to spout a bunch of bullshit, anyway my point is…”
Any attempt at fact checking will not be neutral. You can fact check obvious hyperbole, you can fact check because of slight misinterpretations, you can decide NOT to fact check. As soon as you decide to do it, you open the door for bias or accusations of bias.
Reality isn’t neutral, facts are objective. If there’s something that different stances on and both be personally correct then it’s an opinion.
Slamalamadingdong!
Come on and slam! And welcome to the jam!
I prefer to be r@ped by Vance if these two are the only men left…
What is wrong with you?
Yes, I agree. What is wrong with the quality of trolls? Their posts are so low-effort, and also reveal so much about their fragile mental state. On the plus side, it makes it easier to diagnose, block, and move on.
I’d prefer to not use the internet if people like Henry@lemmy.ca were the only posters left.
A lot of the trolls recently also have very weird histories. The accounts are often over a year old yet have no post or comment history. They just woke up within a few days ago to start trolling.
Henry here has a 3 year old account with zero activity until just 4 days ago, and every comment has been trolling.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government, but like, choosing the best rapist is hardly an improvement.
Hook each VP candidate nuts to a car battery and every time they lie hit them with the full voltage.
Simple as.
too low voltage, recommend 10 batteries in series
That would increase voltage?
That’s how batteries in series work.
Learned something new
Series increases voltage, parallel increases capacity. the more you know
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Was thinking of that exact video when writing this lol
12 volts is nothing. You can bridge a car battery with your fingers and nothing happens.
I’ve seen this Reddit post before.
It’s not a joke. Though you can feel free to keep making jokes, but seriously, think of a 9v battery and putting your tongue on it. A car battery is barely one more AA battery on top of that.
Have you seen the Reddit post where the guy attached the power supply to his freshly showered balls?
A power supply is not a car battery. Either it wasn’t a car battery or it was fake. Literally go try it yourself. I’m not joking. Car batteries you literally can’t even feel if you bridge the terminals. There’s plenty on YouTube if you don’t believe me and choose to believe some random Reddit vid.
