-Caveat Lector-
New Hampshire newspaper says Tim Russert
blew it as debate moderator
Saturday, January 8, 2000
MANCHESTER, N.H. - The Union Leader, a sponsor of the debate
among Republican presidential candidates on Thursday night,
apologized Friday because, it said, the moderator, Tim
Russert, paid
so much attention to the two front-runners at the expense of
the other candidates.
The Union Leader, the largest newspaper in the state, has an
aggressively conservative viewpoint and has often been
successful in
using its weight in New Hampshire politics. This year the
paper has
endorsed Steve Forbes for the Republican nomination.
Friday, in a signed editorial on the front page, the
publisher, Joseph W.
McQuaid, wrote that Russert had apparently decided to make
the
debate ``his own two-man show with candidates George Bush
and John
McCain, virtually ignoring the four others for much of
the questioning.''
If readers and viewers are upset, McQuaid declared, they are
``no
more so than this newspaper.''
Russert, of NBC News, said that an analysis of the tape
showed that
the time allotted each of the candidates was
``remarkably comparable,''
and that he had been complimented on his handling of the
debate not
only by Bush and McCain but also by two other candidates:
Gary L.
Bauer and Sen. Orrin Hatch.
©.2000 N.Y. Times News Service
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