A good reason for allowing television to show what was going on inside was that "the new technology of television has presented us with a way of closing the gap between the electors and elected that has existed ever since the birth of representative democracy in Athens."
另一位議員則指出，自從代議政治在雅典誕生以來，選民與代議士之間的鴻溝日益嚴重，尤其在國會有式微趨勢的今天，電視轉播或能拉近這道鴻溝。