In the Trump era, however, demanding that the president answer formal
questions is asking a lot, which is why, on his own accord, he’s
transformed the debate medium into talk radio, in which the host can
hang up on callers and riff on Hunter Biden (“/He got three and a half
million dollars from Moscow/…”).
Maybe this most recent debate would have made more sense if, instead of
taking place on a colonial red-white-and-blue stage, the candidates had
ditched the moderator, worn those YouTube headphones, and shouted their
insults into oversized mics.
Viewers would then have understood that they were tuning into something
akin to/The Rush Limbuagh Show,//Mike and the Mad Dog,/or/Howard Stern/,
and that this was not an attempt to recreate the agora in Periclean
Athens. At least we all would have been spared this week’s national
disappointment over the quality of the exchanges.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/02/don-and-joe-play-talk-radio/
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