Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

In some previous, and largely unreported poll, it was apparent that (if given the chance) Kucinich was the one candidate that most represented what the people want. From his ideas about healthcare, elimination of NAFTA, foreign policy etc... his thoughts are echoed by the majority of the people.

So I suppose it is not surprising that he is not given the chance that the establishment's candidates are given in this "democracy" of ours.

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

Reminded of author Ralph Ellison's landmark novel of social injustice, one columnist dub's presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich the "2008 election’s invisible man." Tristam reprints an email from the Kucinich campaign so readers can see for themselves "how the media decides whether someone exists or not." A partial list of the “outrages” that prompted "thousands [to] flood... the ABC News website and other online news sites with comments of protest":

• Congressman Kucinich was apparently deliberately cropped out of a “Politics Page” photo of the candidates.
•  Sometime Monday afternoon, after Congressman Kucinich took a commanding lead in ABC’s own on-line “Who won the Democratic debate” survey, the survey was dropped from prominence on the website.
•  ABC News has not officially reported the results of its online survey....
•  AND, as every viewer of the nationally televised Sunday presidential forum is aware, Congressman Kucinich was not given an opportunity to answer a question from moderator George Stephanopoulos until 28 minutes into the program.

ABC has failed to respond to these points, perhaps because it's not so easy to justify blatantly biased coverage of an actual event with the usual lines about how they "don't think non-viable candidates deserve the same amount of attention," etc. This isn't a non-effort on their part, but a pro-active effort—and not so dissimilar from their approach in previous election seasons; see FAIR's Action Alert: ABC Narrows the Field (12/11/03) and the subsequent Activism Update: ABC Responds to Critics of Campaign Coverage (12/12/03).