How is America to know which individual running in this election will be the best commander and chief executive officer? If we were to use ABC’s democratic debate on Wednesday, April 16 as a sample interview, we might confuse a presidential campaign for a soap opera audition. ABC promoted the debate with images of Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos, the big guns. Watching the promos I inferred that these two seasoned journalists were to ask hard hitting, vital policy questions. Instead, both, perhaps fed by company agendas or the gossip appeal of certain topics, pounded away for the majority of the debate about non-issues.
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