CNN Producing Hillary Propaganda Piece -
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Published on: 8/6/2000
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The remainder of the tickets were distributed by the network to community groups to ensure a variety of questions, said CNN spokeswoman Kelly Keane.She did not identify the groups, which were selected by CNN.
An Associated Press reporter and an AP photographer will be admitted to the Katharine Cornell Theatre auditorium, Keane said.Other media, including editors of the university's student newspaper, the Spectrum, will be barred from the auditorium.They will view it on monitors in a media center in another building.
The whole screening process makes a bad statement for any politician to feel that they have to screen their questions so heavily, said Beena Ahmad, the Spectrum's editor in chief.
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Keane said, we be encouraging all audience members to ask questions, and we be reviewing them for balance, to avoid repetition.Every different question from every different demographic and every different voter group and every different social group - that be a fair town meeting..
New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, Clinton's Republican opponent in the Senate race, was invited to take part in a similar town meeting with Blitzer, CNN said, but the time and place of the event was left open.