Thursday, November 29, 2007

HORSERACE

How Would Last Night Have Gone if YouTube Partnered With Fox News?

There's an interesting discussion brewing among conservative bloggers about whether the problems with last night's debate are a reflection of poor choices on the part of CNN, or inherent to the questions of the medium. 

My thought: If YouTube had sponsored with Fox News, and Brit Hume & company had vetted the questions, wouldn't they have selected dramatically different ones? Wouldn't we all, in all likelihood, be saying more positive things if the queston-vetting had been done by a source conservatives trusted?
 
Don't you think Fox, or C-SPAN, or Russert, or John Stossel, or somebody who's distinctly not liberal would have found a question in a similar style and topic to the one about the Bible, but from a questioer who didn't look and sound like a David Koresh wannabe? Wouldn't they have instantly rejected the Dick Cheney cartoon? Wouldn't they have ditched the inane song at the beginning?

There are times when I think some of the criticism of CNN is unfair, but they stepped in it with this one, and did so repeatedly - both with the lack of Googling of their questioners and their sense of what questions were worth asking.

11/29 02:40 PMShare