On Monday, October 10, 2016, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > Again, I think the information content in a typical presidential debate is > chronically underestimated. Clearly there is a lot of BS - but that is true > in every phase of the process. If all an othwise informed US voter knew > about these two candidates was what they learned from watching the debates, > they would certainly have enough information to pretty accurately > understand their differences on many of the important issues of the day.
I don't dispute information was desciminated. What I claim is the moderators had next to no control over what information (talking points/passages from stump speech) the candidates chose to offer. The very first question was about what the candidates would tell children -- neither candidate came close to an answer. And it was like that most of the evening. The biggest obstacle in trying to get information from these two particular candidates is in order to get to the information, voters have to endure name calling, shouting, accusations, and interruptions. I don't know how many voters came from a home where parents fought, but from my experience, when mommy and daddy argue, the kids cover their ears and look away until the shouting stops. Yes, Hilary offered specific details about her health care plan, but to get to it, voters had to endure the proverbial mommy and daddy fighting... if I was an undecided voter, I would not be motivated to listen to anything said after one candidate repeatedly calls the other a liar and one candidate threatens the other with prison. A debate moderator is charged with keeping the candidates in check. At best, last night's moderators served as time-keepers. > As we all remember from our junior high school history classes (and now I > guess from Broadway Musicals) democracy has always been a high BS > enterprise. That is part of the price we pay. All the more reason it is > important to have some ways of managing the BS and try to keep the playing > field level. I thought the moderators last night did about as good a job as > I have ever seen under unusually difficult circumstances. > > > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','tvornottv%[email protected]');> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
