But the moderators' real mission is to appear evenhandedly skeptical (a huge challenge for some of them) while ensuring that this ratings bonanza goes off without a hitch.
Well, if you are simply comparing Raddatz to last week's moderator, Jim Lehrer, then, "mission accomplished".
Clancy and his group of moderators say their mission is to inform residents about police events by posting updates based on police scanner chatter.
"It appears that church commissioners were swayed by a fear that divestment would cause irreparable harm to Jewish-Christian relations," said Rev. Katherine Cunningham, vice-moderator of the Israel/Palestine Mission Network, a pro-Palestinian Presbyterian group.
Most of who attended the session, with Justice Cunningham and Hourigan as moderators, were there with that mission, to make sure it did not happen again.
Participants, in particular novices, received support by a moderator (author 2) when designing their own missions.
Q: Who moderates the moderators?
From the beginning, the three Fox moderators — Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly, and Chris Wallace — appeared to be on a mission to knock him off his perch as the Republican front-runner, or, at least, to prove that he was worthy of the position.
Mr. Ryan took the offensive immediately when the moderator, Martha Raddatz, asked about the attack on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.
The moderator of the discussion, journalism professor Ann Cooper, asked how the journalists avoided "mission creep," where they took more dangerous decisions than they should have.
