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Artful dodger versus stumbling truth-teller

By Dave Bath - posted Friday, 23 January 2009


Interestingly, television networks have taken steps to curtail politicians’ efforts to dodge questions during political debates by posting the question asked of politicians for the duration of their answers.

So, Aunty, when will you start doing this? And what about the commercial channels during the news? Can the ticker-tape of headlines beneath Mel and Kochie be replaced by the question when they interview? (Surely any questions are pre-planned, if not outright pre-vetted on commercial networks, and if speech recognition software can produce teletext a second or two later, then there is no real technical difficulty even for unplanned questions).

Better still, what about the core question being displayed during Question Time broadcasts? As Aunty is planning a special channel to broadcast parliament live, I hope they’ll be thinking about how to include such a feature.

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It isn’t just politicians, I’d like to see this happen whenever a question is put to business lobbyists (particularly Big Carbon) that have their own, rather than humanity’s, interests at heart.

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First published in Balneus on December 21, 2008. This article has been judged as one of the Best Blogs 2008 run in collaboration with Club Troppo.



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Dave Bath is a former single custodial dad (and grandfather since early 2007), has developed software for nearly 30 years (both open source and commercial), has an academic background in biomedical sciences, and has spent much of his commercial IT work in the fields of health, risk management, resourcing and finance. He blogs at Balneus.

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