@robotemoji to politics • 1 year agoHow Presidential Debates Became Unwatchable. A Nonpartisan Analysisstatecraft.beehiiv.comexternal-linkmessage-square18arrow-up1138arrow-down15
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minus-square@TropicalDingdonglink16•1 year agoI mean, debates aren’t just like, whatever we pretend them to be. They are like, an actual, structured, formatted, moderated thing. There are definitions that are meaningful to these words. For example: https://opentodebate.org/what-is-the-oxford-style-debate-format/ You poll the audience before the debate begins on the reaction to the thesis. You poll them afterwords. Whichever team changed more minds is the winner.
this version of debates is actually reality tv
I mean, debates aren’t just like, whatever we pretend them to be.
They are like, an actual, structured, formatted, moderated thing. There are definitions that are meaningful to these words.
For example: https://opentodebate.org/what-is-the-oxford-style-debate-format/
You poll the audience before the debate begins on the reaction to the thesis. You poll them afterwords. Whichever team changed more minds is the winner.