Sunday, October 14, 2012; 12:04:48 PM Eastern
In 2016, a two-screen debate
- In four years, let's have a debate where the candidates may if they want have a computer and access to the Internet. This would allow the candidates to post pointers to things that viewers could read while listening to the debate.
- By then most of us will be two-screen TV watchers. Why not let the debate happen on the second screen as well.
- I know this will seem like a radical idea, but in 2008 they were still time-delaying debates so people on the west coast saw them three hours after the east coast. There were probably just a few thousand people commenting on the debates in real-time. Now, what a difference. We've covered a lot of distance in just four years.