CNN Regrets Role In Planting US Dem Presidential Debate Question

AP via Dow Jones | 11/11/03 | AP Staff

[martin_fierro]

Schadenfreude

[woofer]

CNN Regrets Role In Planting US Dem Pres Debate Question

My, my...caught trying to make news instead of reporting it. How liberally typical.

[Savage Beast]

"CNN Regrets Role In Planting US Dem Presidential Debate Question"

Say, I wonder if CNN Regrets Role in serving as an anti-American, "Liberal", Democrat Party propaganda machine???

[Drango]

a CNN producer ... clearly went too far,"

CNN clearly goes too far on any day ending in "y".

[talleyman]

Is that German for "shot self in foot"? He-he-he...

[per loin]

CNN manufacturing the news? I'm firmly disillusioned.

[Pharmboy]

Trustman lived up to her name, and CNN lived up to its tradition.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Phonies.

[BunnySlippers]

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."

I thought this was interesting ... Lighthearted? Why?

[nutmeg]

bump

[Mo1]

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."

CNN came up with that stupid question??

Figures

Wonder what other questions they had the students ask?

[kayak]

Alexandra Trustman

What irony! This young lady needs to learn quickly not to trust the media, particularly when it comes to politics.

I'm not a bit surprised at CNN wanting to lob softballs at the 'rats .... it's their specialty.

[Loyal Buckeye]

CNN regrets that it was caught planting questions.

[Snowy]

CNN doesn't regret doing it. They regret getting caught. There is a difference.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Yeah right. Just like CNN regrets covering up Saddams' human rights abuses in exchange for access to his spokesmen.

[Prov3456]

Good one!

Exact translation of "Schadenfreude" is difficult, but more-or-less, it means "taking pleasure in someone else's pain or suffering."

Generally it's not a good thing, but I do have some pleasure in CNN's being exposed for the Dem mouthpiece/propaganda organ it clearly is.

[Consort]

Schadenfreude

And epicaricacy.

[Interesting Times]

CNN: We Report, We Decide.

[InvisibleChurch]

CNN Regrets Role In Planting US Dem Presidential Debate Question

no, cnn only regrets getting caught

[Diddle E. Squat]

What a minute, we need to parse CNN's statements like we parsed the Clinton Admin's. So if CNN admits its producers staged a light-hearted question, it suggests that they also may have staged other questions. To avoid getting busted hard on that, they chose to reveal that they planted an innocent one. Story gets covered, and they move on, hoping that no one will dig deeper.

The real question is: Did CNN plant other questions, and has this producer done this before in other debates?