The tone was set by the very first presidential TV debate: John Kennedy vs Richard Nixon in 1960.
This paraphrased line was used on me recently in a recent TV debate on the impact of QE2.
How comfortable would we be with a decision on capital punishment taken via a TV debate and a vote on Twitter?
Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon backed Mr Salmond's stance and said the prime minister should take part in a TV debate.
Russian prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into media mogul Alexander Lebedev, after he punched a fellow guest during a TV debate.
His poor performance in the final TV debate cost him the election.
The candidates will continue to argue over the details, but many voters will react to the general impression conveyed by the TV debate.
In 2005, Mrs Hutchings challenged then Prime Minister Tony Blair during a live TV debate over the proposed closure of a special school.
He then angered many Republicans when he said in a recent TV debate that anyone who opposed his policy as Texas governor of giving in-state tuition to illegal immigrants' children was heartless.
The TV debate which traditionally puts the two candidates against each other just before the second round of the elections and which was followed by 18 million people showed the two men's strikingly different styles.
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Indeed when the BBC tried to stage a TV debate between the candidates both men linked by these historic allegations declined to take part, leaving the stage open to the remaining two candidates in the field.
What about this business of a TV debate, Alistair's words were actually my hunch is that at some stage it'll happen, a perfectly good thing in principle, but have you decided that you like the idea, you love the idea, you want to do it?
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As a point scoring device in the sound-bite driven immediacy of a TV studio debate, it's quite useful.
If TV ushered in Debate 2.0, 2012 might solidify Debate 3.0.
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Mr. Sarkozy has repeatedly challenged his rival to debate on TV or radio, first proposing two debates, and after coming in second on April 22, proposing three debates.
The debate over traditional pay-TV vs.
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After the debate, something strange happened when TV viewers voted on who won.
CEOs from Hewlett Packard to Coca-Cola have high-tailed it to Washington to discuss the fiscal cliff with Congress in hopes to avoid a political made-for-TV showdown, similar to that of the August 2011 debt ceiling debate.
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They rolled out The Big Debate, an original series that plays like a gossipy edition of TV's Crossfire, earlier this year.
He had said if you read the transcript of the debate it came off better than if you probably had seen it on TV.
Since a fairly standard line in the DVR debate centers around the usually assumed idea that DVR users are watching more TV, therefore making up for those ads they're skipping, some new analysis by Mediamark Research has come out with a surprisingly opposite result.
Television's political use, first in the 1950s and in subsequent decades, involved coverage of national party conventions (beginning in 1952), TV presidential campaign commercials (beginning with Eisenhower), presidential candidate debates (the Nixon-Kennedy debate was the first to be televised in 1960), and live presidential press conferences and speeches (Kennedy was first to do this from 1960-1963).
Siri on your television set would revolutionize the remote control and make it a lot easier to find the latest election debate or the Super Bowl, especially for those of us who can never keep track of anything on TV.
"Although some of the recommendations have been debated within the sector, wider public debate is needed on how Wales can best develop its creative industries and ensure that the country has a TV ecology that meets the diverse needs of Welsh audiences across the regions, " said Dr McElroy.
All the Republican candidates had been invited to debate this week in Des Moines, not only at the Brown and Black Forum but also at a TV event to be sponsored by the Republican Party of Iowa and Fox News and a radio-only event sponsored by Iowa Public Radio and NPR News.
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