We need something better than televised leadership debates, we need content
Politics is chess, not checkers. If the public is to be well-served, it will have to better informed. A good place to start would be to modernize the way the networks conduct public debates during an election. Up until now, the guiding principle seems to have been to come up with a format where the participants can be glib rather than forthcoming—and get away with it.
HALIFAX—When political spin machines meet the public’s legitimate need to know, the winner is usually confusion.
That is especially true in an election cycle. Instead of giving clear messages on major issues of public policy, candidates usually spend their time making unsubstantiated claims abo...
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