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Candy Crowley's Debate Controversy

Dawn Megli |
October 16, 2012 | 12:12 p.m. PDT

Executive Producer

Crowley is the first woman to moderate a presidential debate in decades. (Creative Commons/ Donkey Hotey)
Crowley is the first woman to moderate a presidential debate in decades. (Creative Commons/ Donkey Hotey)
CNN's Candy Crowley will serve as the moderator in Tuesday's presidential debate. Unlike previous moderators, Crowley has vowed to ask forensic follow-up questions to the candidates' answers. But her attempt to push Obama and Romney beyond their rehearsed talking points violates an agreement between the camps on the format of the debate. Is Crowley exercising journalistic integrity or throwing a monkey wrench in the national debate?

[View the story "Candy Crowley: No Meek Moderator" on Storify]



 

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