Letters to the Editor
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No matter how stupid
I don't care how silly or stupid or strange the YouTube questions were, they were a HUGE improvement over Wolf Blitzer's tragi-comic portrayal of a "newsman" trying to get people to just answer "yes" or "no" to nuanced issues so he could get as many sound-bites as possible for the after-analysis. People at least ask genuine questions, and even when they may or may not be putting the candidates on, they are more interesting than a talking head.
I think it would be interesting if YouTube held a debate and had the candidates submit YouTube answers to YouTube questions, without any networks or network news types in between.
And CNN ought to stop wasting time with their stupid photo-op openings for these things and the dumb final questions (jewelry for Hillary, sports for Rudy -- isn't that predictable?) and just stick with real stuff that people actually do want to know.