MEDIA WHORES CNN FORCED student to ask "Pearls or Diamonds" STUPID QUESTION at Democratic Debate...

CNN is up to its usual WHORING of American news; selling DISINFORMATION and DISTRACTION stories at every opportunity to ENABLE the radical right-wing agenda (of XPORTING WARS; using military spending as a means to transfer national wealth from working families to the entrenched elite; and aiding the ruling junta in making vital information secret or off-limits.

For example, here is a story CNN and all the other Media WHORES IGNORE:
"HOW MANY FEDERAL DOLLARS have been spent on the "reconstruction" of New Orleans, and HOW, after all those billions of dollars spent, are there STILL MOUNDS OF DEBRIS covering ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOODS, and why has the federal government REFUSED TO DRAW UP A MASTER ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN to guide the long-term reconstruction of New Orleans?"

In yet another example of that "secret" but plainly visible CNN agenda, not only did Wolf Blitzer repeatedly CUT OFF Dennis Kucinich, but the post-debate CNN team included some Clinton campaign hired advisors (James Carville), and pretended the "2nd tier candidates" (Dodd, Richardson, Kucinich, and Biden) didn't exist.

Questions About Carville and CNN
By Julie Bosman
November 16, 2007
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/16/questions-about-carville-begala-and-cnn/index.html?hp

There are very few political analysts more closely associated with the Clintons than James Carville, who was a key adviser to Mr. Clinton in the 1992 campaign.
So it’s no surprise that Mr. Carville’s appearance on a round table after last night’s CNN-sponsored Democratic debate is arousing some morning-after controversy.
“Would it kill CNN to disclose that James Carville is a partisan Clinton supporter when talking about the presidential race?” wrote Daily Kos. “Would it kill James Carville to disclose that he is a partisan Clinton supporter when on the air talking about the presidential race? Apparently so.”

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"Diamonds v. Pearls" Student Blasts CNN (Updated With CNN Response)
16 Nov 2007
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/11/16/diamonds-and-pearls-are-a_n_73024.html


Maria Luisa, the UNLV student who asked Hillary Clinton whether she preferred "diamonds or pearls" at last night's debate wrote on her MySpace page this morning that CNN forced her to ask the frilly question instead of a pre-approved query about the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.

"Every single question asked during the debate by the audience had to be approved by CNN," Luisa writes. "I was asked to submit questions including "lighthearted/fun" questions. I submitted more than five questions on issues important to me. I did a policy memo on Yucca Mountain a year ago and was the finalist for the Truman Scholarship. For sure, I thought I would get to ask the Yucca question that was APPROVED by CNN days in advance."

Now, Luisa is getting "swamped" with critical e-mails.

So what happened?

Writes Luisa:

"CNN ran out of time and used me to "close" the debate with the pearls/diamonds question. Seconds later this girl comes up to me and says, "you gave our school a bad reputation.' Well, I had to explain to her that every question from the audience was pre-planned and censored. That's what the media does. See, the media chose what they wanted, not what the people or audience really wanted. That's politics; that's reality. So, if you want to read about real issues important to America--and the whole world, I suggest you pick up a copy of the Economist or the New York Times or some other independent source. If you want me to explain to you how the media works, I am more than happy to do so. But do not judge me or my integrity based on that question."