Video questions for the candidates

Over the past several weeks, people around the country have submitted questions to 10Questions.com. The 10 highest-rated posts will be answered by the presidential candidates. Here are some of the questions: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7J4gfByYqY[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWBJzF8T6Y8[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGnUs_X0nQA&l[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbvYv6_2RIg&l[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faT38EmqR18&l[/youtube] To vote on these questions or many other questions, go here.

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What fuels media coverage of political campaigns

Marty Kaplan has described how the media covers political campaigns.  The media: work for a big business, whose oxygen is attention. They live or die on grabbing and holding audiences. To stay in business, they need combat, conflict, heat, meat, flip-flops, gotchas, losers, boozers, hairpin turns, heroes with feet of clay, Rockys,…

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A Poet Laureate For Missouri

The state of Missouri has never had an official poet laureate.  Like many people, I didn't know that, although unlike many of those many people, I should have.  One of the hats I wear (besides the one in the cool profile photo above) is the president of the Missouri Center…

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What’s Worse?

Here's a heartwarming story  about some of the insanity that followed in the wake of 9/11.  We see this kind of thing all the time, in the news, on tv shows, in movies.  A mistake compounded into tragedy by the utter fear and panic induced under extreme conditions.  One could…

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