"The
Republican National Committee (RNC) announced Friday that it is
suspending its relationship with NBC News following the third GOP
presidential primary debate this week.
RNC
Chairman Reince Priebus wrote a letter to NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack
saying that the organization’s sole role in the primary debate process
is to ensure that its candidates are given a full and fair opportunity
to outline their vision for the future of the United States.
This
was not the case, Priebus said, for the conservative politicians
onstage at the University of Colorado’s Coors Events Center in Boulder
on Wednesday evening.
“The
CNBC network is one of your media properties, and its handling of the
debate was conducted in bad faith,” the letter reads. “We understand
that NBC does not exercise full editorial control over CNBC’s
journalistic approach. However, the network is an arm of your
organization, and we need to ensure there is not a repeat performance.”
According
to Priebus, the business news channel did not deliver on several
promises: (1) The debate did not focus on key issues that matter to
voters, such as job growth, taxes, technology, retirement and the
national economy; (2) candidates did not receive opening questions on
the economy or finance; and (3) speaking time was not monitored
carefully to ensure fairness.
The
conservative leader characterized the questions as “inaccurate or
downright offensive.” He cited the first question directed to party
frontrunner Donald Trump as to whether he was running a “comic-book
version of a presidential campaign” as an example." yahoo
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