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WHY DID CSU HAVE TO PAY FOR THE DEBATE
by ROLDO BARTIMOLE
Friday, Mar. 07, 2008 at 11:46 AM
CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY WHITE POWER ELITE GIVES BLOW JOBS TO MSNBC
Why Did CSU Have to Pay for Debate? Are we all stupid or what? Cleveland State University, a college of working class andmiddle class students, had to raise $300,000 to help put onthe Democratic debate last week at the Wolstein Center. Why? Debate sponsors NBC-TV, its affiliate here WKYC, and itscable network MSNBC are all profit making entities. They allenjoy government-anointed, semi-monopolies using the publicair waves. They are being fed by millions and millions ofdollars of election advertising. Yet CSU had to go take$300,000 out of this community to host the event. I don?tunderstand why the profit-makers didn?t pay their own way. The Cleveland debate drew 7.78 million voters, a historicbest for MSNBC, according to Nielsen Media Research. So shouldn?t NBC pay CSU, rather than the other way around? MSNBC has been running ads saying that the debate inCleveland got it great ratings, but CSU had to pay some ofthe cost of providing the network a stage. Doesn?t seem right to me. However, it does seem just the waythe private sector operates here and everywhere. It?s alltake, take, take. Contact: <Roldo@Roadrunner.com>
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