The Democratic National Convention is convening for their first day of business today in Charlotte, North Carolina. You can watch gavel-to-gavel coverage online here:
http://www.demconvention.com/live/. Do note that this is hosted by the Democratic National Convention Committee so you will not see neutral analysis here. However, you will see what is happening live.
Big Name Tonight: First Lady Michelle Obama
ABC,
NBC, and
CBS will cover only 1 hour of coverage a night, from 10pm-11pm on their television channels, although they are streaming more of it on their websites. This will be when the biggest names will speak (Former President Bill Clinton, Vice-President Joe Biden, President Barack Obama, etc)
CNN,
FOX, and
MSNBC will offer more extensive coverage but will probably tune in and out of speeches depending on the speaker, the time in the night, whether they need to take a commercial break!, and what their analysts want to talk about! The analysis tends to be more biased on these channels, with people who clearly seem to be more/less supportive of a particular candidate.
However you tune in, watch out and see if you can figure out whether the analysts speaking seem to side with one side of the aisle. Note what the speakers are focused on...what are the hot topics? Any topics seem to be a common theme among the speakers?
Thought I'd end with this political cartoon, from the previous 2008 presidential election, but sort of taking on a timeless theme! Thoughts?
http://www.theweekdaily.com/article/index/88367/3/3/Conventions_too_scripted
