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To: michael97123 who wrote (404827)	8/6/2008 3:41:46 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 1576378

ABC NEWS SNUBBED: DEBATABLE By DON KAPLAN Bob Schieffer will be a moderator. Posted: 2:58 am August 6, 2008 AN esteemed group of TV jour nalists, but no one from ABC News, has been chosen to moderate this fall's presidential debates - raising eyebrows in the industry. NBC's Tom Brokaw, CBS' Bob Schieffer and PBS' Jim Lehrer will moderate the upcoming debates between Barack Obama and John McCain. PBS' Gwen Ifill will moderate the vice-presidential debate. But the absence of anyone from ABC has some insiders wondering if the network was snubbed due to last April's Obama-Hillary Clinton primary debate, moderated by Charlie Gibson and ex-Clinton staffer-turned-ABC Newser George Stephanopoulos. Gibson and Stephanopoulos were criticized, in some quarters, for turning the debate into an ambush-style interview, not a substantive discussion of the issues. But Janet Brown, the executive director of the Commission on Presidential Debates - the non-partisan body that organizes the events - said that's not the case. The debate, last spring, she said, "Was not a factor in this decision. This should not be seen as a decision not in favor of any news organization." Brown said the moderators are chosen by committee by virtue of their individual professional acumen, grasp of the issues and the "understanding that they are there to facilitate a conversation between the candidates, not [to] compete with them." A moderator's network affiliation is not a consideration, she said. An ABC News spokeswoman said network officials were "disappointed." "If they didn't take that [spring] debate into account, they should have," said Cenk Uygur, the host of "The Young Turks," a left-leaning talk radio show. "That was a very poorly-moderated debate."