You can see how it would be attractive to a TV producer, but a device used by CNBC on a televised panel debate “Who’s in Charge?” jarred somehow. The idea was that each of the panelists would be given a certain amount of time, about three minutes, to state their case. But to keep them to their times, CNBC superimposed an enormous clock behind the panelists that ticked off the seconds, game show fashion, as they neared the end of their alloted span.
Now, I know that the tendency of the famous and rich to keep talking while we head to a commercial break can be nerve wracking, even annoying, but I’m not so sure about the sight of Nobel prize winner Joseph Stiglitz and billionaire investor George Soros in competition with a speaking clock, as if they were on Jeopardy, is the right solution.
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