Bob Franken: Cover the Story, Don’t be It

This will not endear me to the television industry's muckety-mucks, because their news divisions make huge, almighty buckety-buck profits thanks to the astronomical ratings that come when they present the primary elections' presidential debates. So they're not going to be thrilled with my advocating that we end our Faustian deals with the parties and stop producing their candidate cattle calls ... or perhaps stampedes.

I've criticized certain CNBC moderators for embarrassing us all with their vacuous and blatantly hostile questions and discrediting the entire idea that journalists are supposed...