On CNN, Web Will Rock the Vote [Debate questions asked in 30-second videos]

YouTube is trying to do something drastic to the presidential debates: Make them watchable, which would go a long way toward increasing their relevance to voters.

A clean-cut thirtysomething man in a dark-blue suit, a serial poster who tabs himself a comedian on the site, wryly bemoans the morass in Iraq: “Some feel the current administration has got us into deep doo-doo. My question to you is: Have you got rubber boots? And if so, have you got more for us?”

Sounds like a DNC 'Gong Show'... with your gay-blade host, Andersahn Cooper

As long as the media controls the content and format it is not a debate just a presser.

Exactly!
The defining characteristic of journalism is that it promotes itself by criticizing (even second guessing) those who seek to gain authority by accepting responsibility (in business, the police, the military), and by promoting those (e.g., trial lawyers, union leaders, Democrat politicians) who criticize responsible executives and eschew responsibility for themselves or for journalists.
Consequently "objective" journalism is inherently leftist - a fact which produces the myriad examples continuously documented by "conservative" talk show hosts, the Media Research Center, and so forth. And the more agressively journalism proclaims its own objectivity, the more they betray their arrogance and the more certainly they are committed to their vision of their own importance - and the more patently they are not objective.
When people such as this are "objective moderators" in "debates," the result is a skewed discussion in which leftist themes predominate - unless there is a Ronald W. Reagan to withstand the partisan tendency.

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