| A SPOTLIGHT ON THE JOURNALISM YOUR SUBSCRIPTION HELPS BRING TO LIFE. |
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Bill GoodykoontzĀ |Ā Media Critic
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| Did you watch the vice-presidential debate Tuesday night ? I did. (On the other hand, I get paid to; I donāt know if Iād have slogged through it for free.) JD Vance and Tim Walz met. Like every other journalist who writes about this kind of thing, given the stakes, I was ready for a fight. |
| And didnāt really get one. |
| The debate turned out to be, in the words of seemingly every headline written about it, surprisingly civil . The two candidates complimented each other, noted where they agreed on certain issues (or at least aspects of them) and never resorted to immature, schoolyard name-calling. Instead, they actually talked about issues. |
| What are we supposed to say about that? |
| Of course, appearances can be deceiving. Vance lied quite a bit and got angry that co-moderators Norah OāDonnell and Margaret Brennan fact-checked him. (They didnāt spare Walz; they asked why he had mischaracterized being in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. He bonked the answer.) |
| And there was real news. Walz asked Vance flat-out whether Trump lost the 2020 election (Trump continues to lie about it). Vanceās answer was telling. āTim, Iām focused on the future.ā Walz called it a ādamning nonanswer.ā |
| Thatās about as contentious as it got. Maybe it was a throwback. But maybe it should also be the future. |
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| Who won the VP debate between JD Vance and Tim Walz? Margaret Brennan and Norah OāDonnell, in an oddly civil contest. How CNN and Fox News reacted. |
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Ted Simons talked with Kari Lake on āHorizonā on Arizona PBS in a fair, if relentless interview. It was a masterful example of pushing back on lies. |
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The mysterious traveling figure first surfaced in Las Vegas before arriving in Phoenix. It is titled āCrooked and Obscene.ā |
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Itās up to you to decide who makes the best taco in metro Phoenix in 2024. Check out the 10 finalists, including TaāCarbon, Tacos Chiwas and Xolo. |
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There is a growing number of classes offered by school districts in the Valley that focus specifically on the experiences of African Americans. |
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The audience at ASU Sun Devil Stadium was asked to boo Barbra Streisandās āA Star Is Bornā co-star at a concert topped by Peter Frampton and Santana. |
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