McCain, Obama to media: Piss off, we don’t need you running things
June 9, 2008 at 8:59 am by Wayne GarciaAs Big Media looks again to swallow the process of choosing a president in our nation, John McCain and Barack Obama are taking a unified stance against letting media companies sponsor or moderate their future joint appearances.
From NYT website:
Bill Burton, a spokesman for the Obama campaign said, “Both campaigns have indicated that any additional appearances will be open to all networks for broadcast on TV or Internet like the presidential commission debates rather than sponsored by a single network or news organization.”
Both candidates had been invited to a town hall session being put together by ABC News and NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg (a potential veep candidate in either party) that was to be moderated by the highly annoying Diane Sawyer.
