No More Blather

For those who want quick questions that don't require a script, here's one:

Very quick question for you: I believe that massive illegal immigration is an indicator of massive government corruption. Do you agree, or disagree?

Then, at that time or a later date, a follow-up could be asked. If the answer was 'no':

Do you want to discover the flaws in the presidential candidates' policies before the election, or do you want to wait until one of them is in office to discover those flaws?

The mainstream media is unwilling and unable to ask the candidates specific questions that would reveal the flaws in their policies. One solution is a series of policy debates.

The CNN/Youtube Democratic debate was horrible because a) almost all the videos submitted were incredibly weak, and b) CNN chose the weakest of the bunch. Rather than forcing those who want to be president of the U.S. to defend their policies, the candidates got off easy and were for the most part simply able to launch into their stump speeches.

This problem will continue in one form or another as long as CNN or another biased group is the gatekeeper.

The better way to choose the videos is to ask known quantities (such as bloggers and pundits who have reputations they would presumably want to protect) to rate the videos on their difficulty vs. their triviality or generality. Then, the most difficult videos would be selected.