I’m not sure I can objectively critique it - better that you decide whether delabarre’s reaction is valid. I am a little miffed at the way Major Duffy was boxed into a quasi-endorsement.

Bud also summarized my whole platform into a single sentence.

I guess I’m partly to blame for the content, or lack thereof. I didn’t tout what I would do, when Bud Lowell cornered me at the Albany Express press conference hosted by AQE and Citizen Action. I didn’t give him any great sound bites to work with. Bud insists he did a fair job, and that he summarized my platform directly from my website. He managed to do it in a single sentence, whereas I have a whole web page that translates a single spaced, small font printed page (wait until you see the insert in City Newspaper this week!). I break my platform into three distinct peices, so if I had my d’ruthers, I would have liked my platform described that way.

The bottom line is that the media covers political contests like horse races, not like reasoned debates. Why should WXXI be any different?