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October 12, 2012 09:57 pm GMT

No Online Questions At Next Debate: Tired Of Pot And Snowmen?

071128_youtube_snowmanThe Internet is taking a backseat at the next presidential debate: CNN's moderator Candy Crowley will not be "taking questions via email, Twitter, Google Moderator or any other online source for the October 16th debate," reports TechPresident. Four years ago, taking questions submitted over YouTube and Facebook was hailed as the democratization of the elite-controlled candidate debates. Since then, however, media organizations and the White House alike have quietly dismissed the process of crowdsourcing questions, likely because of the perceived silliness and marijuana-obsessiveness of the questions.

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