"Don't Adjust Your Vertical, Don't Adjust Your Horizontal. . .

. . .because we control your TV set."

Drudge points us to CNN's manipulation of a Dem presidential candidate debate. The question was about the candidate's computer preferences: PC or Mac.The questioner, Alexandra Trustman (how ironic) initially wanted to ask a complicated question about the use of technology and on the question she was told to ask, she says:

...she was "handed a note card" with the question and told she couldn't ask her alternative "because it wasn't lighthearted enough and they wanted to modulate the event with various types of questions."

The pWashington Post has a different version, including an expression of regrets by CNN here:

Trustman said she was informed that the network "thought it would be a good opportunity for the candidates to relate to a younger audience."

Guh. As if filtering and biasing the news weren't enough, now they're telling us what questions we should be asking. I know, I know, this is sort of a tempest in a teapot. Certainly the question wasn't as politically charged as Iraq, but from where I sit (and type) I'm seeing media's manipulation of image. And as we might guess, our impressions and images of a candidate influences our vote more than we think. e.g., Governor-elect Arnold.

Who knows what their political motivations are; the question is, can they be trusted to present us the truth? Last I checked, it used to only be the likes of yesterday's Russia and today's China that manipulated and controlled the news.

Just another straw for the camel's back, as it were.