| POLITICS & ENTERTAINMENT
by Jason Loewith on 2/05/2008 12:18:00 PM
There's more than enough happening here at Next these days - technical rehearsals about to start for THE AMERICAN DREAM SONGBOOK, the first workshops for our annual outreach program NEXT COMMUNITIES, and ADDING MACHINE beginning previews on Thursday in New York - but it's primary day, and I'm in a political mood.
My political wish for this year is that we Americans demand a campaign about issues and not about scandals. I want Americans to watch the debate to get a better and more nuanced understanding of the issues we face - not to have a chance to see a candidate slip up, or become enraged, or cry. That's reality television seeping into the gravest and most important of responsibilities we as citizens have.
There are a couple of candidates out there who can help raise the level of political discourse in this country, and I'll be rooting for them... and if they win their respective primaries, I have a feeling we just might have an election season in which voters demand of TV networks, newspapers and websites something more important than "who cried today and why?"
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