"Diamond v. Pearl" Student Blasts CNN (with CNN Response)

[Catchawave]

"Diamond v. Pearl" Student Blasts CNN (Updated With CNN Response)
16 Nov 2007 11:21 am

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?

More....http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/11/diamond_v_pearl_student_blasts_1.php

[otohara]

1. How Easily Manupulated People

are.

Will do what ever to get on TeeVee.

[ORDagnabbit]

2. Repeat after me " I will do what I want and not follow the orders of the corporate masters"

stop doing what you're told just because you're told to do it!!!!

[frylock]

3. no shoot..

this was a live event, right? she should have just asked the yucca mountain question.

[Beaverhausen]

4. Maybe if she did, Wolf would have to pull a BillO

"cut her mike! Cut her mike!"

that would have been sweet. Too bad she didn't do it.

[Catchawave]

6. ...or Hillary should have refused to answer it ?

It was sexist, since the Boys Club didn't have a chance to respond :)

[Desertrose]

5. I am shocked to the core of my being...

not.

The MSM is as bought and sold as most of the candidates.

I am tired of having my choices preordained.

I choose Kucinich.