And again, it was two media outlets who arbitrarily decided what voters "needed", cutting voters out of the picture altogether. Even Minnesota Public Radio is scrambling tonight on their local news broadcast. One of their talking heads interviewed an "expert"--a political scientist from the University of Minnesota--in an attempt to get some sort of support for their decision to cut two of the four major Minnesota parties out of the debate today. The "expert" refused to condone what they had done, and labeled it a disservice to the voters to decide such important issues "on their behalf" based upon the media outlet's own polling, which they of course claim is beyond reproach.

One of the disturbing facets of relying upon one's own polling data to make decisions that cut out a third of the voters "for their own good" as the Minnesota media outlets did today, conveniently never gets reported on, to wit:

The Minneapolis Star Tribune endorsed Mondale for US senate. It's poll showed their man ahead.

The St. Paul Pioneer Press, not surprisingly, endorsed former St. Paul mayor Norm Coleman for US senate. Their poll showed their man ahead.

Are there really still people who don't get this? Who don't see how blatant this media bias thing is? Who really are still that clueless?