Sometimes collaboration can be well planned and well executed but fail miserably. Last week's second presidential debate was a good example. Five months of planning and negotiations. Everyone agreed to the rules. Neither candidate followed them.
My sympathies were entirely with Tom Brokaw. Been there, done that. You think the parties have worked together in good faith to come up with a program that is the best they can hope to achieve. You move forward on the assumption a foundation has been built, only to find that one or more key players never intended to follow the rules to which they agreed. You have a choice - either call them on the violation or adapt and try and make it work as well as possible. Brokaw tried both, with a mix of determination, good humor and exasperation. I know how he felt.
The difference is that I never had 63 million people watching me try to herd cats.
Of course you might think that the candidates might want to look like they care enough about the process, or their word, or the people asking the questions – at least in front of 63 million viewers.
Apparently not.
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