by Robert Turner
Senior Fellow, McCormack Graduate School
You are not wrong. Your sense that this presidential campaign has been all but devoid of serious issue discussion is not just an impression; it is a fact.
One concrete indicator: the venerable Tyndall Report, which has been following TV news programs for nearly three decades, reported near the end of the campaign that issues coverage has been less than a third compared with any year since they began keeping track in 1988.
This raises two questions: Does it matter? And, if so, what is to be done.
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