COMMENTARY BY ARIANA PEKARY

It’s Time To End The Panel Discussion Format

In my experience, panel discussions oversimplify, provoke outrage, and allow unchecked opinion to dominate at the expense of fact-based reporting. But in reporting the issue, I found there are more nuanced and dangerous reasons that the format dominates the airwaves.

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