This week Republican presidential candidates tried to reassert control over future TV debates with demands that specified what kinds of questions could be asked and what temperature to keep the room. Yet their requests were pretty escape of the mill,says Alan Schroeder, professor of journalism at Northeastern University and author of Presidential Debates: 50 Years of tall Risk TV. Bob and Schroeder discuss what's really novel about the latest GOP freak out: the ratings blockbusters that these debates gain become.
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