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Free the Debates Wins; Kudos to CNN
By Micah L. Sifry, 05/05/2007 - 1:36pm

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The bipartisan coalition to "Free the Debates" has won a major victory, with the decision of CNN to make all its debate coverage "available without restrictions at the conclusion of each live debate." CNN said in a statement that

Due to the historical nature of presidential debates and the significance of these forums to the American public, CNN believes strongly that the debates should be accessible to the public. The candidates need to be held accountable for what they say throughout the election process. The presidential debates are an integral part of our system of government, in which the American people have the opportunity to make informed choices about who will serve them. Therefore, CNN debate coverage will be made available without restrictions at the conclusion of each live debate.

Three cheers for creative and common pressure, led by Larry Lessig, and for Democratic candidates Obama, Edwards and Dodd who each wrote letters in support of the coalition's proposal. (UPDATE: It helped a lot that a good swath of tech-savvy Republican activists signed on, also.) Let the remix rallies and watchdog wars begin!

Freeing debates?

On a related topic, let bring to light this link: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/BeSeenBeHeard/popup?id=3135373

You will notice that there are nine people to vote for, even though there were ten candidates. Indeed, Ron Paul was SINGLY excluded.

Indeed, this is outrageous censorship. Also, there were nearly 80 comments to the ABCnews story pointing this out. Now that total amount of comments has been modded down to 11. Ron Paul is still not in the poll.

I'm not a supporter of him, but I despise censorship, and he has addressed many issues of censorship, libery, and the police state that have been adressed by the MSM candidates.

please let me encourage you to voice your concerns to ABC about this despicable act of censorship

ABC
ABC News Headquarters
Address 147 Columbus Ave New York, NY 10023
Tel 212-456-1000 (DC Bureau 202-222-7777)
Fax 212-456-5962
Letters comments@abcnews.go.com
ABC News Washington Bureau
Address 1717 DeSales St NW, Washington DC 20036
Tel 202-222-7300
Fax 202-222-7684
DC Bureau Chief Robin Sproul robin.sproul@abc.com 202-222-7200
World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
Tel 212-456-4040
Fax 212-456-2795
Letters netaudr@abc.com
Anchor Peter Jennings peter.jennings@abc.com 212-456-4025
Executive Producer Paul Friedman paul.friedman@abc.com

Phone number jackpot - These are not just phone operators:

ABCNews.com: 212-456-4396
Media Relations: 212-456-3587
Media Relations Executive Director: 212-456-6190
News Coordinator: 212-456-3742
ED News Media Relations: 202-222-6896

By MisterE at Sat, 05/05/2007 - 3:32pm | login or register to post comments