A TV rivalry is playing out when Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will sit on Sunday morning interviews on competing networks. Mr. Obama will appear with Tim Russert on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” while George Stephanopolous of ABC’s “This Week” will interview Mrs. Clinton. The two programs will be broadcast at the same time.

The New York Times reports that, “behind the competition between Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama has been an equally hot one for bragging rights in the hothouse of television news. A crop of new and old television stars have jostled fiercely to land interviews with the Democratic combatants at important moments of the race.”

Mr. Russert and Mr. Stephanopololous took parallel paths to the top of Sunday television. Both were previously working in politics for Democratic luminaries. But, Mr. Mr. Russert has a reputation for being too tough on Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Stephanopolous has been too tough on Mr. Obama.

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