[NetBehaviour] Should Big Media Choose Our Candidates?

[marc garrett]

Should Big Media Choose Our Candidates?

Why should ABC and Fox get to decide who is a viable candidate for 
president?

Should Big Media decide for the rest of us who is -- and more 
importantly who is not -- a viable candidate for president? It's bad 
enough that thus far the reporting of this year's quadrennial 
presidential pursuit has been even more insubstantial than ever, focused 
on the horse race, the fundraising, the polls, the pundits, the haircuts 
and assorted other bits of silliness -- anything other than actual 
issues of concern to voters and importance to the world.

Now we find Big Media, (specifically its Fox/ABC News wing,) determined 
to narrow the field of presidential candidates before any of us, other 
than a handful of white people in Iowa, even get a chance to vote!

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http://www.alternet.org/stories/72548/