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Angie Bailey and Jim Riek anchor KOMU.com's webcast and report election results.
Angie Bailey and Jim Riek anchor KOMU.com's webcast and report election results.
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COLUMBIA - In this week's Your View, KOMU's Sarah Hill explains how a viewer had a problem with KOMU leaving out a Democratic candidate for President.

As of Friday, Democratic Presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich has pulled out of the 2008 Presidential election. However, a viewer caught the story about Sen. McCaskill endorsing Barack Obama when he was still a candidate in the race. 

"There was a story on this morning's news regarding McCaskill's endorsement of Obama and in the course of the story the reporter said that Fugit from the Democratic HQ said, 'Each of the remaining three has that...' In case you have any autonomy from your parent network, there are FOUR Democratic candidates remaining on the ballot. Their names are Clinton, Edwards, Obama and Kucinich."

"The viewer does have a point. We left Kucinich out of that count and probably shouldn't have. The media like to pick front runners because it gives an easier count of one, two or three people to cover rather than all those others. But when we do that we pretty much say these other people don't have a chance at winning and that is not our place to say," News Director Stacey Woelfel said.

If you have a comment, click on the Your View tab, then watch Friday nights at six as we report Your View of the news.

Reported by: Sarah Hill
Edited by: Cate Kelly
Edited by: Mike Rawlins

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