Five kinds of evidence: reasons to NOT vote
columnist: Multimediamonitor

Topic: Media
CNN to host Nader, Paul, McCain, Obama forum?

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CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked readers: "How much air time do we give him [Nader]?" Feedback encouraged Blitzer to learn from the mistakes of Fox News and others by inviting Ron Paul on air with all other remaining candidates. By giving invitations with plenty of notice, all candidates should be able to attend, and by alerting CNN's audience to the invitations and event, both public and CNN interests can be well served. Let's see if CNN is free to blitz the competition!

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by Multimediamonitor
(Libertarian)
Sunday, March 2, 2008

It's not a joke! Just think of the ratings. CNN built its audience by going live where other television broadcasters would not go. Would not just broadcasting the fact that invitations have been sent, itself be news?

What better proof could there be that CNN is not party to a MSM conspiracy to conceal the truth in revealled CNN's report: 'Paul vows to press on. If CNN followed up Wolf Blitzer's questions here last month with an announcement that, in the public interest, CNN had invited all candidates still in the running to a live forum at a date to be fixed, what would happen?

Blitzer's closing paragraph above is: "I would be interested in getting your thoughts on the question I posed at the top – how much air time should we give him in the course of this upcoming general campaign? How seriously should we take his candidacy? Will he be a credible third party candidate along the lines of Ross Perot back in 1992 or will he simply be a marginal candidate with no real chance of winning?" He explicitly called on readers. He got 349 answers before comments were closed for the article. As you can see, they included 30 with negative comments about coverage of Ron Paul and others.

If you have read a few of my articles on the MSM [see here], you know that I've been collecting [and publishing] evidence against the MSM for years. As a matter of law, CNN is free to blitz its competition. My feedback to 'About The Ticker' [see top right on the first link] also pointed out that more important than "air time" are interviewers' questions. Most relevant to the audience's interests are those which test the honesty and credibility of candidates.

Rather than comments below, if you have a few minutes now, why not open the first link and give your own feedback to CNN. Say you'd like to see a forum soon where each candidate is asked something like: "Why should voters trust [particularly of those known to 'flip-flop'] you?".

If enough readers take a few minutes to give your own feedback to CNN, and spread the word to others, who knows? Before you do, you may like to read The McCain, Nader Connection by Kipper Mathews.

If nothing else we'll soon have evidence of whether CNN will get the will to send and announce its invitation to all candidates to a live forum at a date to be fixed.

If you do give your own feedback to CNN, please also give this article a 'Thumb'. Thank you for reading this far.

UPDATE:

After only a day, the response to this article is encouraging. Before I reply to some of the comments I want to draw your attention to the results of the CNN forum last November with Ron Paul and 7 other Republican candidates.

CNN polled viewers with four questions, first being: Who do you think won the debate? Of 30,385 votes cast, 14,949 were for Ron Paul! Only 3237 were for John McCain. Go here for a YouTube view. Whatever else that answer tells CNN [and us] about its viewers, they know that if Ron Paul accepts an invitation from CNN [or any other network] there is a potentially huge audience for a forum such as proposed.

Thanks R Podbielancik for his help to readers. I hope all the 'Thumbs' are from readers who took the time to give their own feedback to CNN. I suspect Wolf Blitzer may need our help.

While gorepublican is right, one of my key points is our need to test the honesty and credibility of all candidates, whatever they offering. Only a tiny minority can do that personally so we must rely on the media. Also CNN's potential audience will be far greater if all candidates accept.

Ed. Chevalier has accepted Blitzer's concern about equal time and [camera exposure] and he's right. Even candidates as popular as CNN proved Ron Paul to be, have no chance if the MSM grip on public information means the 200 million people too busy to search elsewhere, continue to expect McCain to be the GOP nominee.

David has applauded Wolf Blitzer, & I agree but Wolf does not have the right to decide what is aired. So if CNN is less interest in its profits and the public interest than some hidden MSM agenda. As for Cynthia McKinney, we all rely on the MSM even to know she's a candidate.

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Published: Sunday, March 2, 2008
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