Another half-baked import?

A few posts ago on this blog, Paige wrote:

Perhaps the thing that I find most annoying about politics in Ireland is our national tendancy to import every half-baked idea from abroad and assume that it has equal validity in our little parish.

Oops. Before I’d read Paige’s post, I’d just put a post on my blog in which I argue that we should import another half-baked US idea, and reheat it for an Irish audience. It’s basically a call to RTÉ to follow the US example and make the video of next week’s Prime Time debate between Bertie Ahern and Enda Kenny available online without restrictions, to promote and foster the widest possible dissemination of and discussion about that debate. I’ve gone so far as writing to the Director General of RTÉ, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael making the suggestion, and pdfs of the letters (complete with embarassing typos) are available on the post too. There’s even a petition about it, if you’d care to sign it. It can be another of the blogosphere’s contributions to the democratic process.

So, Paige, is this a bad import?