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Originally Posted by woob
Multiple debates but have them be heavily controlled and moderated. Political debates are typically nothing but theatre, with a few snippets of useful information sprinkled in. Have them actually mean something.
- I'd love them to be a 3+ hour process, with certain questions known beforehand, and the parties/candidates have to arrive with actual data/policy/informaton.
- Allow the answers and information provided in the debates to be fact checked by a pre-selected panel of journalistic organizations.
- After the first debate, and each subsequent debate, if anything has come up regarding the previous debate (discovered errors, misinformation, etc.) the first 30 minutes of the debate is to revisit those items.
- If your election period is say 6 weeks, you have to have your fully costed platform live and submitted by end of week 3, so debates 4/5/6 can include questioning on them.
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That would be good. In reality, the media needs to have some control, though. You can't leave this to the parties to whinge and complain about how onerous a debate is to prepare for. More debates, more answering questions, and then not covering events where they are not allowed to ask questions. To me, the media has a significant role to play in democracy and should be fulfilling that.