Note to Dems: Your Television Debates Stink

Democracy suffers as a dying medium makes one last bid for relevance

Douglas Rushkoff
GEN
Published in
10 min readSep 11, 2019

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All the Democratic presidential candidates are on stage during the First Democratic Debate in 2019.
Photo: Gustavo Cabellero/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty

TThursday’s installment of the Democratic Party’s multinetwork debate fiasco promises more than just another night of bad television; it’s a lesson in bad democracy.

It’s almost as if media conglomerates and party officials responsible for the debates…

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Douglas Rushkoff
GEN
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Author of Survival of the Richest, Team Human, Program or Be Programmed, and host of the Team Human podcast http://teamhuman.fm