The problem is that this sort of thing can lead to eventual complete segregation of the media along partisan lines. If Democrats no longer want to debate on Fox News, then Republicans soon will not want to debate on CNN. Then not on PBS. The rest of the media will get divided up the same way.

Is this good for the country? It seems to me that we have entirely too much of a partisan slant in our news coverage as it is, without encouraging either party to boycott this network or that network. In terms of debates, what is important is not the editorial slant of the reporting, it is the viewership the network has. Fox News Channel, biased as it is, reaches many many millions of viewers. Including a hell of a lot of viewers in red states and swing states that democrats badly need to reach. If the CBC sponsored debate were on it, for an hour or ninety minutes, all those viewers would be getting uncensored liberal progressive democratic dialogue. Yes, the Fox people can editorialize in their biased way before and after the debate, but they would do that anyway.

When CBC or another liberal progressive group sponsoring a democratic debate boycotts Fox, they are more boycotting Fox's viewers than Fox's reporters. A boycott isn't going to drive Fox out of business or make them more progressive. It is just going to say, "we don't want to make our case to their viewers" This is not the right message to send. FNC gets huge viewership, much more now than CNN, so if a democrat debate can be put on there, fine and good. Better that than perpetuate media segregation on partisan lines, where those in red states watch some channels and blue states other channels, and neither side appears on the others' channels. That is not a world we should want.