NYT: "Clinton Friend’s Role Sets Off Intense Criticism of CNN and a Re-examination"

[ClarkUSA]

CNN must have gotten flooded with furious emails from the netroots. Yes!

'Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton prepared for a battle with her Democratic rivals at the CNN-sponsored debate on Thursday night.
She did not have much to fear from the postdebate round table... Mr. Carville’s presence aroused the fury of rivals and bloggers.
They called it a conflict of interest and criticized CNN.

“Would it kill CNN to disclose that James Carville is a partisan Clinton supporter when talking about the presidential race?” Markos
Moulitsas wrote on his liberal blog, Daily Kos. Mr. Moulitsas drew hundreds of comments.

Tom Reynolds, a spokesman for Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, who is also seeking the Democratic nomination, said: “What you
saw last night lacked full disclosure. The average viewer out in middle America may not know the inside-the-Beltway connection.”

The criticisms were among a series against CNN for how it managed the debate, a two-hour event in Las Vegas...Voters and
commentators wrote online about how the audience cheered and booed, the way the CNN hosts reframed audience questions
and whether it was correct to demand yes-or-no answers to complex questions...'

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/17/us/politics/17cnn.html

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