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COMMENTS: Bribing the Disenfranchised
Children are deprived of the franchise on the grounds of their age. Instead of feeling alienated against the political system because of their exclusion, the network newscasts would have us believe they are instilled with civic pride. Friday, ABC anchor Charles Gibson made the singing debaters of Atlanta's Ron Clark Academy his network's Persons of the Week for their YouTube music video You Can Vote However You Like. Now CBS' Kelly Wallace celebrates debating fourth graders and eighth graders running for student council on Long Island. Bribery is a civic virtue one council candidate has discovered at Lawrence Middle School--Matt Foley hands out free bars of Hershey to his electorate of classmates with his likeness pasted on the wrapper.
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