Reply #25: Nearly all of the people posting at 60 Minutes' site disagree with you

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and they aren't necessarily Edwards' fans, progressives or Democrats.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/24/60minutes/main2605038.shtml

I personally think the right wing has been so successful at cowing the MSM that Couric and/or her bosses may have been worried before the interview about whether she might come across as TOO sympathetic to the Edwards, or giving them a platform not given to other candidates. She did not want to get all of the angry emails, letters, etc. so she may have made some very bad decisions about how to phrase questions and whether to keep "hammering" versus moving on to other topics. There was little apparent consideration as to whether the questioning strategy was similar to that used with Rice or other Repuglican interviewees. How ironic and how appropriate that these decisions are now being hammered, but not by the RW. Maybe if the MSM has to concern itself with fairness and accuracy, and the feelings of ALL of its interviewees and its audience, and not just those on the right, we will get a better MSM. Maybe someday.