Bob Schieffer, Sander Vanocur, Mike McCurry and Janet Brown Join Moderator Marvin Kalb To Mark 50th Anniversary of Historic 1960 Kennedy-Nixon Forums and Explore Future of Presidential Debates in Age of Global Media Transformation
WASHINGTON – On September 26, 1960, Vice President Richard M. Nixon and U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy gathered in Chicago to discuss the issues of their campaign in the first-ever general election presidential debate. A monumental evening for both politics and television, the debate reached nearly 70 million TV viewers. Now, 50 years later, the debates are among the most anticipated events of each presidential campaign. Americans, eager to see their candidates tackle the most important issues of the election, tune in to each event on televisions, radios, computers, and now even mobile devices.
To launch the new season of “The Kalb Report”, moderator Marvin Kalb will revisit the groundbreaking Kennedy-Nixon debates with a distinguished panel including Bob Schieffer of CBS News, Mike McCurry and Janet Brown of the Commission on Presidential Debates, and 1960 debate questioner and former network correspondent, Sander Vanocur. The forum will take place on Tuesday, September 21, at 8 p.m. in the main ballroom of the National Press Club (529 14th St., NW, Washington, D.C.).
"Given the new technology of communication--the Internet, the iPad, the explosive growth of cable TV--change is in the air,” said Mr. Kalb. “But is it change for better or worse? Can the presidential debates retain their substance, or must they too bend to ratings gimmicks? We have the right panelists, and I can't wait to hear the right answers, whatever they may turn out to be."
For the eighth consecutive year, "The Kalb Report" will be underwritten by a grant from Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation Donor Advised Fund at Communities Foundation of Oklahoma (CFO ...More...
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