CNN fell all over itself apologizing to the Republicans for allowing a 43-year veteran who happens to support a Democratic candidate to ask them a question. Shocking! The reporter somehow fails to mention that CNN allowed at least one clearly Republican-biased question on the Democratic debate ("If you are elected, will my taxes go up, the way they always do when Democrats get in?"), or -- much more important -- that one of the questioners on the Democratic debate, a CNN anchor soon to have her own show, is married to a senior Republican advisor, Dan Senor. Media Matters tells all.

Good article. Very fact based (basically quoting debate transcripts).

This is another big ethical lapse for the media, and in particular CNN, allowing questions to the Republican candidates from someone known to them to be a a Democratic party activist. The article is accurate and include a quote from CNN admitting that they failed to follow even minimal ethical standards in calling on this person, which was a double ethical lapse since the debate supposedly was to be based on questions submitted in advance. Coming after a series of revelations about planted questions and allowing party activists to ask them (as happened in the last debate among Democrats), this raises a serious issue that the media need to confront promptly. The article covers the facts extremely well.