Reply #49: It's a dangerous slippery slope

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What criteria did they use this time to eliminate Kucinich? Was it determined by a specific number of votes he had to receive? Or a specific amount of support? Will they make that criteria, which probably results from a programming decision public? What if next time, they decide who can debate after just one or two polls, their own internal polls. If there are no established criteria and it is just a seat of the pants programming decision, there are no standards and its all arbitrary and discretionary. I think we need laws that force the networks to give free air time to each qualifying candidate, the way they do in the democracies in Europe. The air waves belong to the people and the corporations only rent them as a privilege accorded by the people.