Cherokee Nation election update
With weeks of preparation for a debate between the challengers for Principal and Deputy Chief, Stacy Leeds and Raymond Vann and the incumbents Chad Smith and Joe Grayson, the Cherokee Phoenix, a media outlet controlled by the incumbents, botched the production of the streaming video and audio feeds.
We understand that Stacy Leeds did much much better than Chad Smith, and the utility of losing 18 minutes of the debate to the loser is wicked obvious. This photo ran in the Muskgee Phoenix, which chose to use a moment when the incumbent is speaking, and the challenger is looking down, and from an angle that placed the incumbent closer to the viewer than the challenger, which are choices the MP didn't have to make, but made anyway.
