techPresident - Is Yahoo!’s online debate going to be fair and balanced? - Comments

Good point n/t

David All — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:44:51 -0400

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Fair and balanced?! How about relevant?

jake3_14 — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:01:43 -0400

Rather than worrying about whether candidates prefabricated answers to prefabricated questions will be fair and balanced, we should worry about whether the questions or answers mean anything at all. The only candidate Q&A I've seen lately of any substance was McCain's grilling on "The Daily Show." And there, only the questions were relevant. McCain's answers might as well have come from a Magic 8 ball.

Let's watch what candidates do, rather than listen to the boring pablum they spew when they talk to an audience. Knowing that Obama's political platform is written by the same Wall St. consortium that wrote Clinton's tells us far more than the vague platitudes about "the politics of hope" Obama mouths. Following the money trail (see http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/moneyweb.asp?cycle=2008) will tell you more about a candidate's loyalties than professions of solidarity with union workers. And there are a number of sites that examine candidate's voting records.

Frankly, I stop listening to what a candidate says the moment the candidate announces s/he's running for something, and I start looking at what s/he's done, who's paying for his/her campaign, and who's writing his/her policy material.

Is Yahoo!’s online debate going to be fair and balanced?

David All — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:29:54 -0400

When mega-giant Yahoo! decides to play in the political sandbox, I’m going to pay attention. Yahoo! is currently ranked number one in http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_500 “>Alexa.org’s Top 500.

So when it was reported this week that Yahoo! had partnered with http://www.slate.com/ “>Slate, Huffington Post, and PBS’ Charlie Rose to host the first-ever online Presidential debate, as a conservative Republican, I immediately felt a curling in my stomach.

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