What happened on the evening of June 27 on Station KHNL at 7 p.m. was a shameful display of discrimination and bias on the part of a major local TV station.

A debate for the Republican governorship featured only two of the three filed candidates for the office. Ray L’Heureux, an announced and filed candidate for the office, was denied participation for questionable reasons.

KHNL took a poll the results of which were announced April 7 before Mr. L’Heureux even became a candidate. They decided to invite to the debate only the two contenders in the poll and said they did not think L’Heureux was staging a serious enough campaign.

Stewart Yerton/Civil Beat

Are we at the stage where the news media determines who is a serious candidate and who is not?

Should an incomplete media poll be used as a determinate of who is viable and who is not? This unfair manipulation of public attention is not what our electoral process deserves.

I hope other media will be more responsible and protect the peoples’ interests more than their own.

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