Participants were brought into TV studios to take sides on the basis of political loyalties. The silenced reality is that sex harassment comes all too often as a surprise. Most perpetrators aren't recognizable creeps, but men who women dared to think might interact with us as equals. According to the National Council for Research on Women, at least half of all women will experience sexual harassment at some point in their lives. But primetime left it to the afternoon talkshows to ponder the real toll harassment takes in U.S. life.
Partisan debates fit better into snappy soundbites.
Maybe they sell more papers, too.