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If not the horse race, what?

davewiner

Way back on Feb 9, I asked a question: Is the horse race inevitable?

And I asked Jay Rosen, if not the horse race, what?

In other words, in a right world, what would the journalists cover in an election?

Today Jay answered.

Update

I'd add this. Last night after the Democratic debate, something amazing happened on CNN. An interesting discussion between analysts and surrogates about what had just happened betw Sanders and Clinton. It was substantial, because new territory had been covered in the debate, including a 1985 video of Sanders praising Castro's Cuba and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. Raising the question of exactly what kind of revolution does Sanders envision for the US?

Anderson Cooper, a CNN guy interrupted, maybe this was over his head, or he didn't recognize the discussion as being part of the political process, with a process question. Do you think Sanders' surprising win in Michigan last night helped in this debate and what does his performance foretell for the upcoming primaries next Tuesday.

Filler questions for when there's nothing else to talk about. But this time there was other stuff to talk about. You have to wonder how that happened? Did a director say in his earpiece, oh no you can't go there, quick cut to a process question! Or..?

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itwbennett writes: Cisco Systems has patched high-impact vulnerabilities in several of its cable modem and residential gateway devices that are distributed by some ISPs to their customers, and said in an advisory that customers should contact their service providers to ensure they have the patches. The embedded Web server in the Cisco Cable Modem with Digital Voice models DPC2203 and EPC2203 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that can be exploited remotely without authentication. And the Web-based administration interfaces of the Cisco DPC3941 Wireless Residential Gateway with Digital Voice and Cisco DPC3939B Wireless Residential Voice Gateway are affected by a vulnerability that could lead to information disclosure. In addition, the Cisco Model DPQ3925 8x4 DOCSIS 3.0 Wireless Residential Gateway with EDVA is affected by a separate vulnerability, also triggered by malicious HTTP requests, that could lead to a denial-of-service condition.