Forget the old media thinkers who were disappointed in last night’s debate at The Citadel in Charleston, S.C. The bottom line is that it was fabulous to hear real people ask real questions.
If you are a candidate, you can dance around a question from Wolf Blitzer, Chris Matthews, Britt Hume or Tavis Smiley. But when you are staring down a woman who takes her wig off to show her bald head (breast cancer), or a family feeding another grownup (Alzheimer’s), or a parent that has lost a child in Iraq, then it’s that much harder.
You know, we have some experience with this in that the TV One interview I conducted with Sen. Barack Obama was mostly questions from our audience. I would have LOVED to have had video questions, but we didn’t have the resources to do so.
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