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Regardless of whom you support, this is of importance to ALL of us.
Check this out - one of the latest entries on the Dean Blog is called 'TV Editing' -->
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All day long we've seen the television news repeating a short edited segment of a single line taken from a Canadian television show. Here's the full transcript. The discussion centered around the pros and cons of caucuses and primaries:
Dean: On a Saturday, is it easy for me to go cast a ballot and spend 15 minutes doing it, or do I have to sit in a caucus for 8 hours?
Guest: This is a good thing, though.
Dean: I don't think so. I don't have the time to do it. It doesn't get people involved. It drives people out of the process, and leaves the people who are left in the process -- the professional people who get paid to be there.
Guest: Let the people in the neighborhoods convince you, say...
Dean: They can't convince me. I've got my kid's soccer game. I've got my second job. I've got all these other reasons that I can't do these things.
Guest: If that's the case, the 15 minutes you're going to devote to politics in your year is a pretty perfunctory involvement in politics.
Dean: Not necessarily. I read the papers, maybe I watch television. I form my opinions, I get to go exercise my opinion. But I can't stand there and listen to everyone else's opinion for eight hours about how to fix the world. Compare this to the way it is reported on television:
NBC Voice Over: Dean even suggested the caucuses were a waste of time for ordinary people.
Dean: “I can’t stand there and listen to everyone else's opinion for eight hours about how to fix the world.”
The power of editing to create a story. Swing the bat.
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First Kucinich masterfully denigrating the media for its horserace coverage, and now this. I love seeing our candidates slamming the media!
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