Did the Debate Cover the Issues? Depends Whom You Ask.

freepress by Jen Howard | Sep. 28, 2008 (Poll)

Supporters of Sen. Barack Obama were more frustrated than those of Sen. John McCain at the conduct of the first presidential debate in Mississippi, according to the "Citizens Media Scorecard." By wide margins, they were more dissatisfied with the narrow scope of the foreign policy questions chosen by moderator Jim Lehrer of PBS.

The Citizens Media Scorecard was an online rating of the debate and the media's performance by a panel of more than ... Full Story »

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Deborah Plummer
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 by Deborah Plummer - Oct. 1, 2008

I doubt any moderator will ever prove to be perfect to any party but I agree, Mr. Lehrer seems to have done a much better job than any other moderator did during the primaries. To have been "fair and balanced," it would have been nice to compare and contrast freepress' evaluation with other like-minded sites. As for the evaluatons about TV coverage of the elections - poor - I totally agree.

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