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By Gary Benoit
Who should decide who’s a candidate in the nation’s first presidential primary on Tuesday in New Hampshire? According to the Union Leader’s Joseph W. McQuaid, the publisher of the state’s largest-circulation newspaper, it should be the voters of New Hampshire. That’s as it should be.
On the other hand, major media elitists see themselves as determining who the “viable” candidates are. They feign objectivity of course. But their actions show that they slant the news to benefit some candidates and harm others, all the while pretending to be objective.
This media bias is sometimes subtle and sometimes not. But rarely is it as embarrassingly transparent as it was when Fox News refused to invite presidential candidate Ron Paul to participate in their forum of GOP presidential candidates on Sunday, just two days before the New Hampshire primary. Paul was at least included in Saturday’s ABC Republican debate a day earlier, but Duncan Hunter was excluded from both the ABC and Fox events. And ABC also excluded presidential candidates Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel from Saturday’s Democratic debate.Though the Union Leader had endorsed Senator John McCain for president, publisher Joseph McQuaid expressed his outrage with the ABC and Fox decisions to exclude certain candidates. “It is a perversion of the New Hampshire primary process to have serious, if longshot, contenders excluded from this possibly significant TV exposure,” McQuaid thundered in his Union Leader editorial. “All New Hampshire citizens should be insulted and affronted by it.”
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