NBC Keeps Kucinich out of Debate
 
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:09:52 -0600 (CST)


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	Thursday, January 17, 2008

	NBC Keeps Kucinich out of Debate

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ISABEL MacDONALD, imacdonald@fair.org, 
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3246
    Communications director for the media watch group FAIR, MacDonald 
said today: "NBC's exclusion of Kucinich from the Jan. 15 Democratic 
debate represents a particularly egregious example of preempting voter 
choice by the GE-owned network.
    "After inviting Kucinich to the debate, the network arbitrarily 
changed the criteria for participation, and disinvited him. When a court 
ordered that, as a matter of the media's obligations, Kucinich had to be 
included or else the debate could not proceed, NBC successfully fought 
the decision on legalistic technicalities.
    "Perhaps NBC recognized that ... [this] was a violation of the 
public interest, because it did not broadcast the debate on its local 
affiliate in Las Vegas, choosing to show the debate only on cable, which 
is not subject to the same public interest regulations as broadcasting."

For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167

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