American Candidate Update

It's true: Rupert Murdoch is planning to make a reality-tv show out of the process of picking a candidate to run for President of the United States. Details here, some commentary here. And here's at least one big reason why the idea is unlikely to produce a really populist/popular candidate: "contestants" will have to finance their own campaigns. Oh well...

[Links via Google News Search, a "beta" search engine that indexes only sites designated as "news" providers. Interesting.]

Posted September 27, 2002 03:26 PM | general politics