The Press Needs to Get Off the Stage


	The Press Needs to Get Off the Stage

DrCat2013

6-25-2008 1:30 PM

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obama, mccain, media, press

DrCat2013 says:

Obama, McCain, and Gershon Agree.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ecdc733c-0a2a-466d-a96e-910bbd4259db/3B3F365C-3391-446C-A8E3-0DB7E60D0FC9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://mediamatters.org/columns/200806170003?f=h_column" href="http://mediamatters.org/columns/200806170003?f=h_column" style="font-size: 11px;">mediamatters.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mediamatters.org/columns/200806170003?f=h_column"><P>The first
thanks-but-no-thanks signal to the press came when the campaigns of both Sen.
Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain quickly <A target="_blank" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http:%2F%2Fwww.examiner.com%2Fa-1430873%7EMcCain__Obama_reject_NYC_offer_on_town_hall.html">rejected</A> an <A target="_blank" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http:%2F%2Fabcnews.go.com%2Fprint?id=5021604">offer</A> made by ABC News to exclusively air the first of the
proposed town hall forums that the candidates agreed, in principle, to have
during the general-election campaign. ABC News, as part of its pitch, offered
to have Diane Sawyer act as moderator.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mediamatters.org/columns/200806170003?f=h_column"><P>But both campaigns
insisted that any citizen-based town hall event had to be open to all
television outlets, as well as be seen on the Internet, and not be sponsored or
organized by a single news organization. More important, the campaigns stressed
that the town hall meeting <EM>would not be moderated by the press</EM>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mediamatters.org/columns/200806170003?f=h_column">By smartly swatting
down ABC's proposal, the message seemed clear: The campaigns want to get
the media <EM>off the stage</EM>. Journalists are not the
collective third candidate in this election, although at times it's
obvious they consider themselves to be just as important as political leaders.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3B3F365C-3391-446C-A8E3-0DB7E60D0FC9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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