The only big news from last night’s debate is that we can confirm that we should not trust the news media to run a Presidential debate. To begin with, this was a question and answer period, not a debate. A debate would have been more substantive and would have given people some idea about a candidate’s position on issues rather than their ability to produce a sound bite on command. The questions were controlled in a way that demonstrated the bias of the media personalities asking them, and there was no effort to even pretend to give each candidate an equal amount of time. Fox News was trying to out CNN CNN, and unfortunately they may have succeeded. In the future debates need to be covered by the news media, not controlled by it. (continue reading)
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