For debate, Fox Business aims to be the anti-CNBC
Fox Business Network, the host of Tuesday’s GOP debate, has its claws out — not for the candidates, as its moderators vow to stick closely to the issues, but for its more famous competitor CNBC.
Tuesday’s encounter will be the first GOP debate since CNBC’s on October 29, after which multiple campaigns blasted the moderators for losing control and asking “gotcha” questions – while RNC Chairman Reince Priebus dismissed it as a “crap sandwich.”
Thus, FBN’s moderators Neil Cavuto and Maria Bartiromo insisted in POLITICO interviews that they are aiming to be quite different from CNBC — and seemed to share the sense that CNBC’s questions veered from the strict substance of the issues.
"My goal is to make myself invisible,” Cavuto, one of three moderators for primetime debate, said in an interview last week. "That I’m not the issue … That we’re not the issue. The answers to what we’re raising become the issue."
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Tuesday’s encounter will be the first GOP debate since CNBC’s on October 29, after which multiple campaigns blasted the moderators for losing control and asking “gotcha” questions – while RNC Chairman Reince Priebus dismissed it as a “crap sandwich.”
Thus, FBN’s moderators Neil Cavuto and Maria Bartiromo insisted in POLITICO interviews that they are aiming to be quite different from CNBC — and seemed to share the sense that CNBC’s questions veered from the strict substance of the issues.
"My goal is to make myself invisible,” Cavuto, one of three moderators for primetime debate, said in an interview last week. "That I’m not the issue … That we’re not the issue. The answers to what we’re raising become the issue."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/fox-...
