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CNN Regrets Role In Planting US Dem Presidential Debate Question
AP via Dow Jones | 11/11/03 | AP Staff

Posted on 11/11/2003 9:08:02 AM PST by BunnySlippers

CNN Regrets Role In Planting US Dem Pres Debate Question

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP)--A Cable News Network producer went "too far" when the news organization told a student what question to ask during last week's Democratic presidential candidate debate in Boston, a spokeswoman for the news network said.

During the debate, co-sponsored by the nonprofit Rock the Vote organization, Brown University student Alexandra Trustman asked the candidates whether they preferred the PC or Mac format for their computers.

In an editorial she wrote for The Brown Daily Herald, the university's student newspaper, Trustman said CNN, a unit of TimeWarner (TWX), told her to ask the question.

In a statement Tuesday, a CNN spokeswoman said the cable network regrets the producer's actions.

"In an attempt to encourage a lighthearted moment in this debate, a CNN producer working with Ms. Trustman clearly went too far," said spokeswoman Christa Robinson.

A message left Tuesday for Trustman wasn't immediately returned and she didn't respond to an e-mail from The Associated Press. A woman who answered Trustman's phone said Trustman didn't want to comment.

In her editorial in the Daily Herald, Trustman wrote that she was called the morning of the debate and given the topic of the question the CNN producers wanted her to ask. Trustman said she was "confused by the question's relevance," and constructed what she thought was a more relevant question "about how, if elected, the candidates would use technology in their administrations."

But when she arrived in Boston for the debate, Trustman wrote, "I was handed a note card with the Macs and PCs version of Clinton's boxers or briefs question" and told she couldn't ask her question "because it wasn't lighthearted enough and they wanted to modulate the event with various types of questions."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: 2004; cablenewsnetwork; chickennoodlenews; cnn; cnnschadenfreude; electionpresident; rockthevote; schadenfreude
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To: Humbug; Grit
Luciferous Logolepsy

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61 posted on 11/11/2003 12:13:52 PM PST by Consort
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To: Consort
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62 posted on 11/11/2003 12:16:15 PM PST by Consort
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To: kayak
Trustman

I hope she is not a Woman's Studies major. Could she pass the classes with a name like that?
63 posted on 11/11/2003 1:14:12 PM PST by On the Road to Serfdom
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64 posted on 11/11/2003 1:17:15 PM PST by Timesink
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To: BunnySlippers
They only regret getting caught.

And they don't want to lose viewers, hence the "regret".

They all are alike, and belong together.
65 posted on 11/11/2003 1:24:49 PM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: BunnySlippers
Clintoon None News is allways over the edge 24/7/365.

There is nothing this pos net would not do to harm conservatives, Christians, real Jews, and others who aren't liberal.

There is nothing the pos net would not do to make Castro, $oddomite, Ben Laden, and the rats in congress look good inspite of their grim realities.
66 posted on 11/11/2003 1:59:54 PM PST by Grampa Dave ("If you can read this, thank a teacher!....Since it is in English, thank a Veteran!")
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To: Grit
epicaricacy
Not in my dictionary.

Not in mine either.

67 posted on 11/11/2003 2:06:59 PM PST by RJL
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To: RJL
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68 posted on 11/11/2003 3:27:49 PM PST by BushCountry (To the last, I will grapple with Democrats. For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at Liberals.)
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To: RJL
I just looked it up in the OED and it's not there, believe it or not.
69 posted on 11/11/2003 4:45:24 PM PST by GulliverSwift (Howard Dean is the doppelganger of the Joker, only more insane.)
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To: dueler88
Send the good Doctor this one next time he complains about RightWing media.

CNN..."Bare and fallace!"


70 posted on 11/11/2003 5:21:41 PM PST by Mr.Atos
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To: BunnySlippers
Is CNN brain-dead or what?

But when she arrived in Boston for the debate, Trustman wrote, "I was handed a note card with the Macs and PCs version of Clinton's boxers or briefs question" and told she couldn't ask her question "because it wasn't lighthearted enough and they wanted to modulate the event with various types of questions."

71 posted on 11/11/2003 10:23:27 PM PST by GOPJ
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To: BunnySlippers
CNN was clearly not interested in a serious debate of the issues by people who would be President of the United States. They wanted a lighthearted moment for the evening's entertainment. How pathetic.
72 posted on 11/11/2003 10:26:56 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard
I don't really think that light-hearted entertainment was what they were after at CNN. It is clear that the 'Rats are getting creamed on the issues. The more these dopes talk about Iraq and the economy, the more the public holds it's collective nose. The 'Rats are losing on national security, economics, domestic policy, abortion policy, religion, homeland defense, prescription drugs, social security and medicare. What else is there to talk about?

PC or Mac... Boxers or Briefs...

Anything but the issues. The more they talk about the issues, the more GWB goes up in the polls. The perfect debate for the 'Rats is a series of modulated attacks on the President separated by light-hearted moments where the candidates get to smile and pretend to be movie stars. CNN is just helping them along.

73 posted on 11/12/2003 6:24:26 AM PST by gridlock
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To: Interesting Times
CNN: We Report, We Decide.

No, more like:

CNN: We Decide What We Report

74 posted on 11/12/2003 3:14:55 PM PST by FreeperinRATcage (I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for every thing I do. - R. A. Heinlein)
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