GOTCHA - THE FALLACY OF CNN'S DEBATE QUESTIONS
My prejudice is that the CNN-YouTube debates were poorly orchestrated affairs, and have said so on record (Minnesota Public Radio) . This project is a more systematic examination of the questions selected by CNN. After viewing the questions preferred by Anderson Cooper and others I expected to find the following:
- Entertainment bias in selection
- Gotcha Questions
- Themes aimed at Party (GOP) hypocrisy
- Issues selection tilted toward conflict/drama rather than consequence
When I examined the individual questions my inquiry took an unexpected turn. Certainly, many of the questions could be viewed through the above lens, but the variety of questions was much richer than their generalized duplicity. Damning the questions as double-dealing alone fails to answer how the questions worked. What were their specific sins?
