Recently I thought the media had gone completely insane, well apparently I was wrong. While that was pretty ridiculous to me I think this is much worse.

During tonight's CNN/Youtube debate (where voters can submit video questions to Youtube) CNN is adding a new "feature" - they are going to display a graph on screen showing the reactions of the in studio audience in real-time. At first I thought this sounded cool, or at least my inner-geek did. How neat to get the real-time feedback in a cool and visual way. My inner-geek was quickly quieted by my inner wanna-be-smart-guy who realized how stupid this is. Not only does the media spin just about everything now they are actively flavoring our opinions of candidates as we listen to what they say. This is just insane - isn't the point of these debates for us to make up our own minds? Do we really need the collective opinion of a bunch of strangers? I'm not really a conspiracy theorist but what's keeping CNN in check and making sure the numbers they are putting up are accurate. I'm hoping someone but this is just way too much for me.

So I'll be skipping this debate, I'd much rather make up my own mind...