'Campaign Operatives Are People Too': CNN's Cooper On Debate Questions |
| Published: November 27, 2007, 1:02 pm |
| Tags: 2008 presidential, campaigns amp amp elections, liberals amp amp democrats, media bias debate, political groups, anderson cooper, mary katharine ham, media business, blogs, journalistic issues |
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Mary Katharine Ham briefly chatted with CNN's Anderson Cooper and David Bohrman about tomorrow's CNN/YouTube debate and concerns about the agenda of questions that will be picked. For the whole thing, go here, but I just had to share this priceless gem (my emphasis in bold). First Ham's question, then Cooper's answer: Q: There's been a bit of scandal about the screening that CNN did on its undecided voters for the last Democratic debate. The diamonds-and-pearls question was attacked by the questioner herself. There were some allegations that several of the voters were in fact liberal activists on quite a few issues (and one Democratic Party operative). What's the process for checking these YouTube questioners and their affiliations? AC: Well, campaign operatives are people, too. We don't investigate the background of people asking questions that's not our job... Ten days ago, NewsBusters associate editor Noel Sheppard noted how CNN stocked the audience of a [ Full article ] |
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