At the last debate, Ryerson met with members of the paper's Readers Advisory Board and editors to pour over the hundreds of suggestions he got from people all over the state. Everyone assumes that because Iowa is an agricultural state, people will only want to ask questions about farming, but we found that just wasn't true. The readers wanted to know about trade, education and foreign policy questions. The presidential campaign has changed a lot from the first Register debate, most notably the media's coverage. Television is the most popular way for a candidate to sell himself or herself to the voting constituents, but Ryerson isn't ready to pronounce good, solid newspaper reporting as extinct.
Television is just image campaigns and mass market advertising.