This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy.
One of the problems is that everybody is used to the old-fashioned debate system, which is very controlled, and where the moderator plays a more active role.
In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.'
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
I grew up in Orlando, Florida, and I joined the debate team right around the time of the 2000 election.
Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.
The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.
In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.
I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.
There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pele. Everyone would say me.
The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate.
Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.
What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.
What is the role of an academic - no matter what they're teaching - within political debate? It has to be that they make issues more complicated. The role of the academic is to make everything less simple.
Reagan is the subject of ongoing political debate, and a lot of liberals don't want to take Reagan any more seriously than they did when he was president. I understand why they don't, but they should.
I've slipped on occasion into the realm of irresponsible invective, but I try to avoid it and generally recant when I fall short. Because name-calling does nothing to improve understanding or move the political debate forward.
The Office for Budget Responsibility correctly stay out of the political debate and do not assess the long-term costs and benefits of E.U. membership.
Every time you engage in a political debate, there is a guaranteed headache from the comment section, from the reaction from everything.
I find the heated political debate over the burkini both ridiculous and dangerous.
Not applying a religious test for public office means that people of all faiths are allowed to run - not that views about God, creation, and the moral order are inadmissible for political debate.
