Substansial commentary or criticism #2

In the article Let Citizens, Not Celebrity Journalists, Ask the Questions at Debates, from the New York Times Fredrick C. Harris a professor of political science at Columbia University argues that citizens should be the ones asking the questions directly at debates in order to improve and make presidential debates more considerable. I disagree with him, yes it would benefit a lot of citizens and I am sure a lot of them would also agree with this idea. Their advantage would be that they will be able to ask their own questions at debates to get a direct answer instead of having an established journalist asking their question in a completely different way and not getting the exact answer they want. But deciding on who to choose out of all the desperate citizens with the urge of asking questions and getting answers would probably be the problem. Fredrick C. Harris does not mention how this process would be done other than just having the candidates field questions from certain people he is not specific such as saying they will randomly pick someone from the crowd. Fredrick also says that we should think of presidential debates as public forums with ordinary people meaning citizens with no special or distinctive features, but in the past we have had debates where citizens have been able to give their opinion and ask question which haven't resulted in a good outcome. So that would be another problem a lot of citizens would want someone knowledgeable on the topic to come up with good questions and ask the questions in a adequate way. And that's why we have professional journalists with that being said in my opinion in order to enhance the quality of presidential debates journalists would be the ones that would have to improve their ways of providing and requesting questions and answers to the candidates and the people, they are the ones that would have to focus on doing their job decently.