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>and the only concrete thing we really have to judge them on is their actual policies, and their actual recent work. All the "image" will be drowned out in noise.

Completely disagree. What will instead matter is purely someone's image and their ability to fool people. Those who will benefit most from this aren't good people affected by smear campaigns, it's bad people who can easily avoid real criticism of actual wrong doings.

Most political scandals I know of are not something inconsequential, but rather due to corrupt or truly immoral behavior, like the recent corruption affair in Austria. Making politicians immune to this seems like a drastic step backwards.

>Well, I mean we coped before we had cameras, right?

Well, yeah, humanity also coped with frequent famines. I'm not sure if going to back to something like that would count as 'adapting' to crop failures.