What do you think of how the media are doing . Doesnt focus on one or two individuals, excluding the others . Are there ways to improve coverage . Here is a chance to let your thoughts be known on Media Coverage campaign 2016. Hear us out you can call us. 202 7488000 for republicans. 202 7488001 for republicans. 202 7488000 for democrats and 202 7488002 for independents. It imposed on her Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. You can email us, too at journal cspan. Org. Highlighting those that will not dissipate in the debate facing polls, with donald trump leading those polls with 22 of those polled followed by jeb bush and wisconsin Governor Scott walker. For those who did not make the cut and who will appear earlier in the afternoon, the former governor of texas rick perry also former senator Rick Santorum governor bobby jindal, and others. The first debate is sanctioned by the rnc. When it comes to the process that is used, it was done on polls. Usa today criticizes the fact that uses polls strictly for that, saying confronted with the lineup, fox news decided to be determined to get the play in primetime, fox turned to the alltoofamiliar obsession of todays politics for polls. The ideas for the basis to get a sense of the ideas and the persons of the candidate that they do not know. That is hard to do if they are shunted off to a Late Afternoon debate. Another major problem is that many of the candidates are bunch so closely together that the difference between them is dwarfed by the polls margin of error. That is some of the thoughts out there this morning on Media Coverage of campaign 2016. We want to give you a chance to make your thoughts known, too. 202 7488001 for republicans for democrats 202 7488000, an independents, 202 7488002. We will take those calls in just a moment. We want to talk first to james warren of the Poynter Institute, which covers the chief media correspondent. He is also a columnist for the new york daily news. Good morning. Guest it is good to be with you on an interesting morning. What you noticed what you noted about usa today is the debates on thursday, it sort of underscores there is just no perfect criteria. Yes, Lindsey Graham is a smart guy, but if he is not registering and old in polls you feel a little sympathy for fox, sort of damage they do damned if they do, damned if they dont. They cannot have 16 guys on a state at one time. Host what do you think about the Overall Coverage of campaign 2016 . Give us your thoughts of what you are seeing when it comes to coverage . Guest oh, i think as opposed to what we would have seen 30, 40 50 years ago where there were just a handful of real media gatekeepers who were deciding basically what the storyline was on a given day, and you might hurriedly pick up the mornings New York Times or Washington Post, and i drove a lot of network coverage. I think this is by and large terrific. The internet age, there is just more than everything. There is more good stuff, there is more total, on adulterated junk unadulterated junk. Yesterday, tweeting by americas political reporters, there may have been three or four that is not tweet hyperbolically the fox announcement. It even said if you look closely, scott simon, the npr host, to wonder in a tweet if he were the only person who had not tweeted about who the 10 were. So there is a lot more good stuff, there is a lot more un adulterated junk. There is a nice piece this morning on vox. Com by ezra klein over donald trump, and i think he sort of nails it as we go from pure astonishment to now sort of grudging a sex cents sort of grudging acceptance. Host the number of appearance by donald trump and foxnews, 31 appearances, five minutes of screen time, and also as you go to the Media Research center there is a chart that provides some of the coverage of gop candidates on abc, cbs, and nbc, donald trump leading the pack as well. So there is fascination with donald trump. Tell us more about the time he is getting onair on these networks. Guest oh, it is just all over the place. The Poynter Institute about a week or so ago if you remember, there was kind of a story that was dominating the media echo chamber, particularly in d. C. In new york, about Huffington Post deciding to characterize trump coverage as entertainment. I wrote about that and debated one of their editors a few times on some and i thought and think it is a little bit silly. Then we checked the amount of huffington coverage, and though they were somewhat condescendingly the writing deriding donald trump, they were giving him far more coverage than any other candidates, especially when one looks at all of the stuff on trump they were reusing. His coverage on him disproportionate . Yes, absolutely totally disproportionate. Is there some justification given how he has been resonating in the early going . Yeah, there is some just patient. Are there reason for Lindsey Graham and other serious folks to be frustrated . Yeah there is. But it is also august 2015. We have a long way to go. It is a bit of a silly season. There will be a decent audience on thursday night, but sitting in a hardline, i can tell you, most people are not thinking about any of this. Host before we let go, jim moran, there is jim warren, there is a story about joe biden saying biden 2016 is a media fantasy, why he is almost certainly going to set the race out. Would you agree with that headline . Guest no, at this point, i do not know what he is going to do. He is obviously sitting back and knows that there is some large percentage of folks that maybe just sort of sick and tired of the clintons. The email controversy sort of reminds people why they are sick of the clintons, in their minds clinton has not really offered a rationale for candidacy. The problem with him is obvious the character that may be unfair to him, but it is sort of hard to unravel about being goofy and gaffeprone. As best chance was 1988, arguably, when he blew it by stealing the lines from a british politician. In 2008, he got zero traction and he is 72 years old i think it is a possibility, but it is really unlikely. Host our guest is the chief media correspondent for the Poynter Institute and also a National Political columnist for the new york daily news. Thank you. Guest a pleasure as always. Host campaign Media Coverage of 2016. Republicans 202 7488001 democrats 202 7488000 and independents 202 7488002. We start with jed this morning in baltimore, maryland republican line. No ahead this morning. Caller hey i think there is far too much interest in donald trump and, you know, there are fort there are far too many candidates. If you look at the number, there is this meme going around that the clown call is getting the clown car is getting too full. I think the clown car needs to shove itself up its ass. Host jimmy is next, republican line, good morning. Caller good morning. I would like to congratulate john kasich and all of his orders for their stunning upset of rick perry to make it in to the top 10. I do not think any of the pundits thought kasich had a chance. He has not had nearly the Media Coverage of perry or fiorina. So we have an early upset in august. Host were you surprised that governor kasich is going to be in the debate . Caller a little bit. I am pleased and he is i think one of the more liberal of the republicans, and i think he has a lot to add to the debate. I hope he disagrees with some of his opponents. Host who do you follow other than governor kasich . Who else are you following closely, perhaps those in the field who are not getting a lot of coverage . Caller i was following rand paul for a while, and i think he has changed his foreignpolicy more than i wanted him to. Host diane is up next from san antonio, texas. Republican line. Good morning. Caller hi, how are you doing . I have been watching closely the Media Coverage, and i am pretty content with it because it is what it is. Foxnews will do what it does and cnn will do what it does. The own thing im surprised about is the twist on morning joe. I really thin and light coming out of this Democratic Party and really showing them for what they are instead of people following them aimlessly without checking what is going on around here. But i think one thing about the Media Coverage, which could be better, is more Carly Fiorina because i think she has a lot to say. Host how much coverage you see of her, and how much do you follow her personally as far as what she is saying in the policies she holds . Caller i follow her i follow them all equally because i follow them on the three major generals so when i follow, i want to see if what they are saying is accurate, and basically i do follow her. I never thought to vote for a woman, but she is definitely a woman of my own kind. But i am definitely going to vote for donald trump if he comes up because he is the one who is working. I miss to that about mitt romney. I loved him, but he did not talk enough, because he is too nice, but donald trump is from new york city like me, and we are not going to put up with it anymore. Host that combination of polls who will appear in a primetime debates, donald trump getting 23 of the nomination of polls that were taken. That is part of the story when it comes to Media Coverage of campaign 2016. Again, you can give us a call, share your thoughts, 202 7488001 for republicans, 202 7488000 for democrats, and for independents, 202 7488002. We go next to david in virginia. Good morning, go ahead. Caller i was just thinking you know it is 2015, anything i do not fully understand is how we are still having an issue fitting everybody in, you know . My thought is, you know, maybe the first 10 people, you put them up on a podium and give them a spot there, but why cant you have people remote in and for the remaining folks . Host have them appear altogether even if they are on stage or offstage, so to speak . Caller yes. There are plenty of other forums that do this, that you would be able to get everybody there. Obviously you have time constraints and you would have to consider how much time youre allotting for the event itself, but making it at least a little more fair to get everybodys ace up there. Host do you think you would learn about the candidates and how they differ from each other with having so many people involved in the process . Caller i think so. I think there are so many differing views and opinions that it really helps shape each others policies and, you know, everybodys tone kind of changes as it goes on. Host Stephen Milbank in the Washington Post this morning talks about Hillary Clinton, especially her coverage in the media, saying that clinton lacking a sparring harder other than socialist Bernie Sanders has host adam from brentwood california, good morning. You are on the line. Go ahead. Caller good morning, pedro and thank you for cspan. Of course hillary is battling the press every time she runs. She digs her own grave. I think she should hang it up, spend her money, go to hawaii. You know, the issue with the topic today of how we did the of all this airtime we divvy up all this airtime, we spent way too much time discussing all the candidates. We have been doing this for a month now that would put you at the beginning of july, so a good 15 months, 17 months is dedicated to talking about the candidates. I mean, we should be focusing on obama. He is doing really good towards the end here. I mean, is a year and a half really necessary . We already know who these people are. I mean lets talk about six months, eight months it gets really old, especially with the senate and the congress after this. I mean the press has to go on it because it is ratings and it is entertaining it is something to follow. But it is a bit too long, a bit too much. Host you said you really know who these people are, would you say that about all of the candidates, who they are, what they follow, whether beliefs are what their believes are, would you know that in detail and would you know where they stand . Caller as a viewer of cspan, i am certainly intelligent enough to figure that out with an month or eight months. It does not take me a year and a half to do research on somebody, so if you have problem with how to divvy up airtime, lets cut it down. We should be focusing on the president and the great job he is doing right now. I am a republican, and you know, i have always been really against him this whole time, but he is pulling through. He is acting president ial. Lets enjoy the last 25 of his term. Host adam, i know you said is his early, but as far as the 2016 field, who has your interest . Caller to tell you the truth pedro, even though donald has been a joke he is not a joke in the business sense, but he is a joke because he shoots his mouth off too much, but he has got a real clear direction for the country, less imports, more exports, bring big business back to this country. Host harold is up next from crownsville, maryland, democrat line. Hi. Caller good morning, and thank you for cspan. I want to make two comments about the Media Coverage were president ial campaign for 2016. It worries me personally that our media is corporateowned and profitdriven, and therefore a lot of times they make a mockery about democracy. Our democracy, i think, we need to pay more attention to and protected. A second point is that our political system is really, if you think about it is very close to legalized bribery. So in my view when you have the money on the media site, you have the money driving political ambitions, we need to protect our democracy. I believe in Common Sense Solutions for the country, and we just need to try to use common sense to work toward raising our children, creating a life for ourselves and our families and generally in most cases, we can Work Together for the benefit of most people in the country and most people in the world. I just wanted to comment on that. Host rona ravitz, North Carolina, that is where jim is campaign roanoke rapids, North Carolina, that is where jim is, campaign 2016 coverage. Go ahead. Caller i want to talk about one guy who is not gotten a lot of coverage, he has gotten some, is ted cruz. Ted cruz has not flipflopped on any issues. He is a hard charger, going against both republican and democrat because he is for the people. He watnts to give the states back a lot of the rights that the federal government has taken from them. I really believe ted cruz, when you see him doing debating, he is not using a teleprompter, he seems to be speaking from the heart. Another as i have these politicians are trying to find money in different areas, we have got a big deficit and everything i really believe that if these politicians would do what the majority of americans want and legalize marijuana for 21 and older, we would have an industry that would really help us economy out. Thank you. Host ted cruz is one i will be appearing on the primetime debate tomorrow with nine others. A highlight in the papers this morning that was jim and North Carolina giving his thoughts on Media Coverage. Paul your next from new york Media Coverage, hi. Caller hi. Pedro, thank you for cspan. My comment is the constant attention to polling turns the Media Coverage into coverage of a horse race. I actually think that what roger ailes has done with the foxnews debate and limiting it to 10 has just made that even worse. Every candidate should be on that stage, certainly for the first debate. It is ridiculous to exclude people who the American People needs to hear from. So i just think that the constant Media Coverage of polling is where i have an issue. Host is there a better way to do it, do you think . Caller well, i think that first of all, one thing that most americans do not recognize is the fact that these polls have such a small sampling number. They asked 1000 people and extrapolate that to their support across the country. It is just kind of ridiculous as far as im concerned. As i said, i think that certainly for this first debate all 17 of those republican candidates should be on stage. And i am a democrat. I want to hear from my ex governor george pataki. Host dont forget that most of those candidates appeared at the Voters First Forum that was on this week, cosponsored by cspan and other media publications. If you want to see that, you can go to our website at cspan. Org and click on the link and then watch it. Again, that was done earlier this week. Here is andrew. Andrew is in ohio, republican line. Hi. Caller hey how you doing . I am a progressive republican, and i will be voting for Hillary Clinton. Enough with the email already. I mean there are a lot of criminals out there doing a lot worse. Host what about Media Coverage of 2016 . What you think of it . Caller i think the Media Coverage is a little shallow. Everybody should be on the stage because we in america, you know, we got we fast food everything. Slow it down, but everybody up and let them say what they have got to say. Host as you can imagine, the reaction of those who were chosen and those who were left out of the primetime debates available on twitter, rick perry sending out a tweet saying i look forward to being on fox news 5 00 p. M. Debate for what will be a series of change of ideas and positive solutions to get america back on track. Lindsey graham calling it the happy hour debate, th