Debates: “Major Coup” For MSNBC

MSNBC’s presidential debates, this Thursday and next, are a “major coup for the third-ranked cable news net, which appears to have won the sweepstakes for the first made-for-TV events of the 2008 election cycle,” Variety reports.

How’d they beat CNN? “MSNBC made sure the invitations were ones that candidates would find very hard to refuse,” Michael Learmonth explains. More…

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