Should Big Media Choose Our Candidates?

SHOULD BIG MEDIA CHOOSE OUR CANDIDATES?
[SOURCE: AlterNet, AUTHOR: Rory O'Connor]
[Commentary] Should Big Media decide for the rest of us who is -- and more importantly who is not -- a viable candidate for president? It's bad enough that thus far the reporting of this year's quadrennial presidential pursuit has been even more insubstantial than ever, focused on the horse race, the fundraising, the polls, the pundits, the haircuts and assorted other bits of silliness -- anything other than actual issues of concern to voters and importance to the world. Now we find Big Media, (specifically its Fox/ABC News wing,) determined to narrow the field of presidential candidates before any of us, other than a handful of white people in Iowa, even get a chance to vote!
http://www.alternet.org/stories/72548/

* Kucinich Files Complaint over ABC Debate
Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich filed a complaint with the FCC on Friday after ABC News excluded him, fellow Democrat Mike Gravel and Republican Duncan Hunter from its prime-time debates on Saturday.
http://www.tvnewsday.com/articles/2008/01/05/daily.1/

* Excluded from ABC debate, Kucinich complains to FCC
http://www.cleveland.com/politics/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/ispol/1199...