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Networks not Playing by Debate Rules

The TV networks are balking at some of the rules that the Bush and Kerry campaigns have hammered out in advance of tonight's first presidential debate. At issue is a 32-page agreement between the campaigns on the structure of the debate, which lays out the ground rules on everything from camera angles to what kind of paper the candidates can use to take notes during the debate. It's the rules prohibiting shots of either Bush or Kerry while the other speaks that has irked the networks.

Read the whole story at The Hollywood Reporter, September 30, 2004 »

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