MoveOn.org Petition in Response to ABC's Presidential Debate

If you are fed up with the 2008 campaign media coverage, particularly the April 16 Philadelphia "debate" moderated by George Stephanopolous and Charlie Gibson, please consider signing the MoveOn.org petition. Below is an invitation to sign from the organization. Please follow the link:

Subject: Enough is enough

Hi,

If you missed the Democratic presidential debate on ABC Wednesday night, Editor & Publisher called it "perhaps the most embarrassing performance by the media in a major presidential debate in years."

Moderators George Stephanopolous and Charlie Gibson spent the first 50 minutes obsessed with distractions that only political insiders care about--gaffes, polling numbers, the stale Rev. Wright story, and the old-news Bosnia story. And, channelling Karl Rove, they directed a video question to Barack Obama asking if he loves the American flag or not. Seriously!

I just signed a petition to ABC and other media that says: "Debate moderators abuse the public trust every time they ask trivial questions about gaffes and 'gotchas' that only political insiders care about. Enough with the distractions--ABC and other networks must focus on issues that affect people's daily lives."

Want to sign it to? We need a bunch of signers for ABC to take this concern seriously.
Click here to sign:

http://pol.moveon.org/enoughdistractions/?r_by=-997650-1M1cuX&rc=confemail

(Posted by Chana for Feminists for Obama)