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[Alias]

Kucinich Campaign Press Release

Aug 21, 2007 10:00 PM

The Kucinich campaign is still awaiting an official response from ABC News about the unexplained - some have charged "inexplicable" - way in which the network has handled its post-debate online coverage of Ohio Congressman and Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich over the past few days.

Among the "outrages" that have energized tens of thousands of Kucinich supporters - and even non-supporters - thousands of whom have flooded the ABC News website and other online news sites with comments of protest:

* Congressman Kucinich was apparently deliberately cropped out of a "Politics Page" photo of the candidates.

* Sometime Monday afternoon, after Congressman Kucinich took a commanding lead in ABC's own on-line "Who won the Democratic debate" survey, the survey was dropped from prominence on the website.

* ABC News has not officially reported the results of its online survey.

* After the results of that survey showed Congressman Kucinich winning handily, ABC News, sometime Monday afternoon, replaced the original survey with a second survey asking "Who is winning the Democratic debate?"

* During the early voting Monday afternoon and evening, U.S. Senator Barack Obama was in the lead. By sometime late Monday or early Tuesday morning, Congressman Kucinich regained the lead by a wide margin in this second survey.

* Sometime Tuesday morning, ABC News apparently dropped the second survey from prominence or killed it entirely.

* AND, as every viewer of the nationally televised Sunday Presidential forum is aware, Congressman Kucinich was not given an opportunity to answer a question from moderator George Stephanopoulos until 28 minutes into the program.

The campaign submitted objections and inquiries to ABC News representatives on Monday and Tuesday. ABC News representatives have failed to respond - or even acknowledge - those objections and inquiries.

Stay tuned for further details.

Strength Through Peace,
Kucinich for President 2008

[Alias]

Remember, this is from a "liberal" media network.

[Tony_Balony]

Well researched claim looks like. Analysis like that is hard to do, you really have to be critical.

Yea, the consent was manufactored.

[dogshed]

I would guess it was an unscientific survey that was flooded by Kucinich fans. If that was the case then dropping the survey was the right thing to do.
Complaining about that sounds childish.

Being cropped out of the photo is bad. I'll give them that.

How was the order of questions decided?

[bucheon bum]

[Alias]

If that is the case then ABC should make a statement regarding that.

[Rteacher]

Could be that ABC has a lot of meat sponsors (like MacDonalds...) who would would get very upset (and possibly violent...) if a vegan prevailed on the national political scene.

[Tiger Beer]

It's pretty safe to say that the mainstream U.S. media has been pretty much determined from the start to NOT give the guy any exposure, or to write him off as much as possible.

The public is following right in line. Actually that is what happens to nearly all of the candidates...unless you become a 'media darling'...

Romney, Guiliani, Obama, Clinton...are 'media darlings'...everyone else is way out on the fringes and 'who are they? never heard of them before' types. Why would we report on any other candidate in any kind of serious way - unless to report their campaign is in trouble and they aren't getting exposure.

[Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee]

The two best candidates are McCain and Biden.

[mack4289]

But there's a reason Kucinich isn't being taken seriously. His economic policies would be a disaster. This is from his campaign website.


http://www.dennis4president.com/go/issues/survival-of-the-middle-class/

4) Save American jobs by withdrawing from job-killing trade deals like the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA) and organizations like the World Trade Organization (WTO) and return to bilateral trade agreements based on securing workers� rights and the environment

... 6) Restore robust, effective collective bargaining by repealing the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, rewriting the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) to remove the severely anti-labor sections and restaffing the National Labor Relations Board with pro-labor appointees.

7) Reward patriotic companies and employers who keep jobs and capital in the United States with tax incentives."

Create jobs by pursuing policies that would discourage investment in American companies and drive up their costs?

[DCJames]

c'mon, no one takes Mickey Mouse seriously.