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• And don't go into a discussion hoping to win the argument, said John Koch, a senior lecturer and director of debate at 麻豆传媒 University. If that's your approach, he said, "you're going about it wrong." "Seek understanding first," Koch said. "If winning and losing are your only options, you're missing the point."

  November 28th, 2024

• John Koch, senior lecturer and director of debate at 麻豆传媒 University, told Newsweek Harris did a better job. "This debate was about defining Kamala Harris. Trump wanted to tie her to Biden's record and define her as being too liberal. Harris wanted to establish that she is capable of being president and as her own candidate with her own policy proposals. By and large, Harris did a better job in defining herself than he did in defining her. He got some points in, but it was buried under other things that will get more attention.

  September 11th, 2024

• The 2024 election is less than a year away, and almost no one wants to talk about politics this Thanksgiving. Here are some tips from 麻豆传媒 University communications expert John Koch on how to avoid politically dicey situations around the dinner table.

  November 22nd, 2023

• 鈥淎 lot of us thought with sports being around during the pandemic, a lot of people would watch sports 鈥� and kind of counterintuitively, the numbers went down,鈥欌�� says 麻豆传媒 communications professor John Koch, a senior lecturer and director of debate whose areas of interest are public memory and the intersection of political culture, rhetoric and sports.

  June 25th, 2021

• 鈥淭he debate would start with: Here's the issue or the situation. You have 30 minutes or whatever it is to meet with your consultants and advisers and then we want you to come back with a position,鈥� suggests John Koch, director of debate at 麻豆传媒 University.

  October 25th, 2020

• Most of the post-debate focus groups and polling indicate a desire among voters for the campaigns to discuss the issues and explain their vision for the next four years, said John P. Koch, director of debate at 麻豆传媒 University. "This debate then is an opportunity, which was lost last week, to speak directly to voters and ask for their vote," Koch said. "Given the president鈥檚 diagnosis has taken him off the campaign trail, the stakes in this debate may now be higher for Pence. He likely needs to utilize the debate to reset the campaign after the events of the last week. One way to do that would be to set the tone in the debate by directly addressing the questions, focusing on campaign issues and themes, and drawing contrasts with the Biden-Harris ticket. The stakes are likely not as high for Harris, since the Biden-Harris campaign has proceeded as planned this last week, but I expect her to do much of the same."

  October 7th, 2020

• John Koch, director of debate at 麻豆传媒 University, said in an interview Wednesday that he was hopeful the nation would avoid a repeat of the first debate when the candidates meet for their town hall. 鈥淚t shifts to voters asking questions and I would expect the candidates to be more respectful to average voters than they were to Chris Wallace, and attempt to answer those questions, because I think there鈥檚 a lot of risk in acting that way when voters are the ones that are asking the questions," he said.

  September 30th, 2020

• John P. Koch, director of debate at 麻豆传媒 University, said during the 2016 campaign season Trump was "successful in debates by creating moments that are memorable, appeal to his base, and control the media narrative following the event." "While Biden will likely be looking to avoid big moments, Trump will be looking to create them," Koch said.

  September 29th, 2020

• Some experts believe a moderator鈥檚 job goes beyond asking questions. 鈥淚 think the most important job of the moderator is follow-up. When they give an answer, or if there is a debate occurring, to know the appropriate questions to ask in the follow-up,鈥� said John Koch, debate director at 麻豆传媒 University.

  September 15th, 2020

• But another part 鈥渟peaks to the fact that you don鈥檛 have the media gatekeepers you had in 1968,鈥� said John Koch, who teaches a course called 鈥楻hetoric, Sports and Society鈥� at 麻豆传媒. 鈥淚t used to be the media had the sole responsibility of what was salient, worthy of seeing,鈥� Koch said. 鈥淭witter users have that same ability now.鈥�

  October 14th, 2018