CNN, FOX and CNBC Push Romney as Republican Nominee
Friday, November 11, 2011

There’s something about Mitt Romney the networks can’t get enough of. Over the last five Republican presidential debates, Romney has scored far more speaking time than his rivals, according to statistics compiled by Smart Politics. He’s logged 73 minutes and 22 seconds while answering questions and responding to candidate attacks, while Rick Perry has had only 53 minutes, 51 seconds. The disparity is even greater with Michele Bachmann (40 minutes, 57 seconds), Herman Cain (38 minutes, 43 seconds), Newt Gingrich (38 minutes, 23 seconds), Ron Paul (37 minutes, 1 second) and Rick Santorum (35 minutes, 5 seconds).
In the most recent debate in Rochester, Michigan, on Wednesday, Romney was allowed to speak 20.8% of the time, with Gingrich a distant second at 13.7%. The media sponsor for this debate was CNBC. The media sponsors of the other debates were CNN (twice), Fox News, and Bloomberg, The Washington Post and New Hampshire’s WBIN-TV in tandem.
Saturday night it will be the turn of CBS News and The National Journal to give the Republican candidates a platform, this time in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
-David Wallechinsky, Noel Brinkerhoff
It's the Mitt Show: Grossly Unequal Distribution of Face Time Continues at GOP Debates (by Eric Ostermeier, Smart Politics)
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