Increasingly lively media, especially cable-news shows, thrive on shallow, angry debate.
The 55-year old, who is backing Yvette Cooper for leader, said he is standing for the deputy position because he is concerned how "narrow and shallow" the debate about Labour's future direction has been so far.
Unfortunately, many Muslims, and especially women who identify as "hijabi," fuel these shallow-minded debates on the necessity and importance of hijab and the headscarf.
I had no intention of doing this, but I've been dismayed at how narrow and shallow Labour's debate has been so far.
It took several minutes for Gingrich's railing about wrongs other Republicans had done to him ("the Reagan negative ad, that is a total lie, O.K.?") to be joined by his contempt for Obama ("shallow"; "deliciously incoherent"; "debating him would be just one of those moments where you could almost sell tickets for charity").
Who do these people think they are, that during most of the presidential debates, the three candidates with such vast experience had to virtually ask permission, to sandwich a few seconds of their views, into the most boring, shallow, vapid, pointless debates that any serious democracy could possibly conduct at such a momentous time in our history?
In her only vice-presidential debate, she was shallow, mendacious and phoney.
He also said those calling for grammar schools were "splashing around in the shallow end of the educational debate".
"The other question is whether the nature of political discourse is changing such that it's now so shallow and media-driven that debate about philosophical issues hardly ever takes place.
Rubio's attacks during the past few days have been crudely expressed (he talked, insinuatingly, about Trump's "small hands," and wondered if he'd wet himself during the most recent debate) and ideologically shallow.
