For healthy debates

For sometime now there seems to be a race in the electronic media to initiate debates by inviting leaders of political parties and others. Curiously, the same set of people, who have expressed their views frequently on a particular issue, are invited repeatedly by most of the channels. Also, the debaters are mostly based in Delhi.

Instead of carrying the debate forward fairly, some of the news anchors become spokespersons of the ruling party. In some cases, the panellists start shouting all at the same time and none of them can be heard by viewers.

Wouldn’t it be better if the anchors