#Watching the TV3 election debate with leaders from TPM, Greens, Winston First and ACT:
https://piped.video/watch?v=db6k68wgwHA
It annoys me that the news media elevated the leaders of the legacy parties to their own private Chrisfest, instead of having a leaders debate that included these 4. That would have been a much more robust and insightful debate than listening to two sheets of human wallpaper dribble talking points at each other.
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I'd really like to see an election debate where the host has a button to turn off each speaker's microphone. As soon as any of them starts delivering a scripted talking point, they immediately lose the floor to the next speaker. By having their mic turned off if they don't yield to the host.
Imagine a cross between a debate and an episode of The Weakest Link.
@bigblen
> The audience has heard your f***ing talking point already
Exactly. Talking points are a way of avoiding the question, while using up limited debate time. This is why I propose the mute button. Then even the live audience wouldn't have to put up with that.
The panel discussion after that TV3 debate revealed that Seymour spoke the most during that debate. But they all agreed he was mostly waffling talking points and losing the audience.
Strypey
bigblen