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| 2003-11-11 |
| The student who asked the most ridiculed question at CNN’s "Rock the Vote" debate last week — "Macs or PCs?" — says it wasn’t her idea. Alexandra Trustman said yesterday that a CNN producer called her on the morning of the Boston forum and suggested she ask about the Democratic presidential candidates’ computer preferences. Puzzled by the request, she writes in Brown University’s Daily Herald, she drafted a more complicated question about how the candidates would use technology. But in Boston, Trustman said, she was handed a notecard with the digital-age equivalent of the boxers-or-briefs choice put to Bill Clinton. She wrote that she told the producer "I didn’t see the question’s relevance," but that he rejected her proposed query "because it wasn’t light-hearted enough and they wanted to modulate the event with various types of questions." Trustman said she was informed that the network "thought it would be a good opportunity for the candidates to relate to a younger audience." This line is the key point to me. CNN broke the trust given to them in hosting a fair debate in order to promote Democrats to a younger audience... in other words they were campaigning for Democrats during a debate. I don’t think they can be trusted to hold any future debates, especially between Republicans and Democrats. If they would do this what’s to stop them from supplying questions to Democrats well before a debate and leave the Republicans in the dark, among other things.... |
| Posted by:Damn_Proud_American |
| #13 Jabba, Sure it will... right after the union contributions.... oh ... wait... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2003-11-11 10:25:51 PM |
| #12 CNN also backed Campaign Finance Reform. What is this contribution worth to the Dem's campaigns? Will this contibution show up in the Center for Responsible Whatever research reports? Just wondering. |
| Posted by: Jabba the Nutt 2003-11-11 10:18:59 PM |
| #11 So, they scripted it to give Sharpton a chance to do half an hour of his standup routine at Dean's expense? I wonder if they did that to try and pull the reins in on Dean. |
| Posted by: ayatollahofrocknrolla 2003-11-11 9:12:06 PM |
| #10 Crazy - spend a few extra bucks on your next surprise-meter, and get a diagnostic self-test built in. That's the only way I can tell if mine's still working or not. The dummycheats are so scripted it hurts to watch. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-11-11 8:00:58 PM |
| #9 the constant debates are not helping at all. Even if the .01% folks continue to lose the debates they will not drop out, the field will remain cluttered. The candidates should debate right before the primaries, anything before that is a waste of time. THey should do interviews with Chris Mathews, Bill O'Reilly, and Tim Russert instead. |
| Posted by: Yank 2003-11-11 7:10:13 PM |
| #8 The SM isn't broken CF.. it just can't measure a small enough quanity of smurk. We need a digial surprise meter with an add-on funk-o'gram. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-11-11 7:00:14 PM |
| #7 tap..tap..tap... maybe it is broken after all.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2003-11-11 5:38:42 PM |
| #6 A better question to these guys... Commodore or Amiga? Any answer would have been acceptable... |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-11-11 1:04:37 PM |
| #5 CNN has admitted that it got one person to ask a specific CNN question. We know this because that one person told us. How many more people did CNN give questions to? Will CNN tell us? |
| Posted by: The Kid 2003-11-11 12:51:26 PM |
| #4 Just proves what we've always known. Questions like, "in light of the failure in Iraq, what do you think about X", or "given Bush's decline in popularity, what do you feel about X", aren't questions, they are statements. That pretty much summarizes any and all CNN, NPR and BBC broadcasts, no? |
| Posted by: B 2003-11-11 11:03:03 AM |
| #3 So after all these CNN fun and games, what is Ms. Trustman's take on this? Is she still going to reflexively vote for whatever Democrat is trotted out as the eventual nominee? |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-11-11 10:40:01 AM |
| #2 DPA, you act surprised? They cheer every time an American soldier falls or someone loses a job. The act like only a Democrat can win a war or stimulate the economy. None of their show even pretend to be fair, so why should a CNN debate. On a side note, very few people actually watch the nine dwarfs in 'concert'. This is also why CNN's ratings are way down. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2003-11-11 10:36:42 AM |
| #1 Covering up for Saddam and shilling for Democrats... |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-11-11 10:25:30 AM |