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I mean, what is a debate?
We have President Reagan and Vice-President Mondale in front of the camera and someone like Barbara Walters says "First question for you Mr President is, what do you think is the solution to the problem in the Middle East. You will have two minutes to answer, after which Vice-President Mondale will have 60 seconds for rebuttal".
Now, who can take that seriously?
If Reagan and Mondale were serious men, in fact, they would turn to Miss Walters and say "What kind of men do you think we are? We're running for the highest office in the land. You can't answer a question like this in two minutes, nor can you rebut someone else's answer in 60 seconds".
Or, they might turn to Miss Walters and say "What kind of people do you think the American public is, that they will put up with a forum in which candidates for the Presidency are asked to respond to a question like this in two minutes and or one minute?" ...
It may well be, that although the American public knows of many things, it knows about very little and maybe the Americans may be the most ill-informed people in the Western World.
I did a survey a couple of years ago of what people knew about Iran and I chose that subject because the Iranian Hostage Crisis had recently been completed. Which means, that for every day for over a year the television news dealt with the Iranian hostage crisis.
So, if there was any subject you could expect the Americans to know something about, it would be Iran and I asked several hundred people some simple questions, some of them being: "Where is Iran? What religion do the Iranians practice? Where did the Shah come from? What does Ayatollah mean?"
Questions of this sort, I found out, that most people knew nothing. Those who did when asked "How do you know this?" said, well they read it in the New York Times, or Time Magazine had done a story about this and so on.
Now, I concede that television is a window to the world as old television Executives like to say "It's a curious kind of window with interesting distortions and refractions. It presents a fragmented world." (C-Span: Neil Postpman on The Modern Media Crisis, 1988)
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