Another media star concedes liberal bias. But NBC News correspondent Gwen Ifill denies any campaign bias as she and Tom Brokaw denounce the free TV air time idea. Do, you know, do people try, David Brinkley always says there's no such thing as objectivity, there are just lesser degrees of subjectivity.
Reporters try to get around that.
I think, I don't think that's a particular problem for Bob Dole, I really don't. In Brokaw's view, candidates already get much exposure on networks news shows. I recall a Center for Media and Public Affairs study earlier this year found candidate soundbites averaging eight seconds. Like Brokaw, Christensen says that giving candidates an open forum, minus journalists, could cause the so-called forums to degenerate into the same kind of 'attack ads' reformers are trying to abolish. But not to worry, the networks aren't biased, so the public will get the full story.