CBS Webcast: Examining McCain-Obama debate No. 3
Presidential contenders John McCain and Barack Obama squared off Wednesday night for their third and final debate before Election Day, but the star of the show might have been Joe the Plumber.
Joe Wurzelbacher, an Ohio plumber, loomed large in the debate after McCain brought him up as an everyman worried about what might happen with tax rates under a new administration. As they have in the previous debates, McCain and Obama tried to spell out their economic philosophies for a curious electorate, and especially undecided voters.
Following the debate, which also covered the general domestic policy plans of the two candidates, Wurzelbacher spoke with Katie Couric of CBS News about what it meant for him to have had such a prominent role in the event and about his impressions of Obama and McCain. That conversation is part of a longer CBS News Webcast examining the debate and how the candidates fared.
Besides Wurzelbacher, Couric talks in the Debate Webcast--presented here--with a panel of undecided voters from across the country and with other guests including Sen. Hillary Clinton and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
Jonathan Skillings is managing editor of CNET News, based in the Boston bureau. He's been with CNET since 2000, after a decade in tech journalism at the IDG News Service, PC Week, and an AS/400 magazine. He's also been a soldier and a schoolteacher. E-mail Jon. 
Guess we need to find another source technology news.
Listen up advertisers.
It's pretty clear they are positioning to re-deploy the News.com URL, at some point it will become a general-purpose news site. And the tech news will be strictly at news.cnet.com instead.
The bank bailout worries Joe, too, because he knows that the population has just had more wealth taken from them and they won't be able to afford to hire him.
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- by MaggieRed October 16, 2008 2:03 PM PDT
- It would be one thing if it was unbiased news. But in CBS's case, they are the industry's worst. Hence their ratings. So you just never know am I getting the truth or am I getting CBS's version of what they want you to believe.
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(5 Comments)Journalism is dead in the 21st century.