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Sean Siperstein has more on the whole CNN feeding students questions thing:

CNN's apologia is bullshit: my suitemate's sister, who is a Brown med student, was similarly called up that morning because they said they might need someone to ask a question about increased costs of care, and fed exactly what that question would be. She ended up not being called on to ask it during the debate, but did attest to the fact that all of the questions were similarly staged (c'mon, did you really think that the "who would you party with?" question was the product of original thought?) . It really is nice to know that the media establishment's idea of engaging the youth (not to mention it being shared by the organization that is supposed to transcend those idiots, Rock The Vote) is to falsely create the image of quirky questions to see how "hip" the candidates are. Last I looked, insulting people's intelligence wasn't exactly the ticket to engaging them...