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11-15-03, 03:40 PM
A matter of Apples and PCs for CNN
Network accused of planting question at presidential forum
Los Angeles Times
NEW YORK -- CNN, which has marketed itself as an outlet for serious news, planted a question about computer preferences at last week's debate of the Democratic presidential candidates, according to the student who posed the query and on Monday wrote about it in an online forum of the Brown (University) Daily Herald.
During the debate, co-sponsored by the nonprofit Rock the Vote organization, Alexandra Trustman asked the candidates whether they preferred the PC or Mac format for their computers.
Trustman wrote Monday that she was called the morning of the debate and given the topic of the question the (CNN) producers wanted her to ask. She wrote that she was "confused by the question's relevance," and constructed what she thought was a "much more relevant" question.
But when she arrived in Boston for the debate, she wrote, 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."
CNN did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
Network accused of planting question at presidential forum
Los Angeles Times
NEW YORK -- CNN, which has marketed itself as an outlet for serious news, planted a question about computer preferences at last week's debate of the Democratic presidential candidates, according to the student who posed the query and on Monday wrote about it in an online forum of the Brown (University) Daily Herald.
During the debate, co-sponsored by the nonprofit Rock the Vote organization, Alexandra Trustman asked the candidates whether they preferred the PC or Mac format for their computers.
Trustman wrote Monday that she was called the morning of the debate and given the topic of the question the (CNN) producers wanted her to ask. She wrote that she was "confused by the question's relevance," and constructed what she thought was a "much more relevant" question.
But when she arrived in Boston for the debate, she wrote, 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."
CNN did not respond to repeated requests for comment.