Steve's barking at primaries what primaries?

I don't get it.
Primary season is the time to pick up delegates for the national convention , there really should be no winners and losers. A candidate can literally come in third in each caucus and primary and still have enough delegates to win to be the parties nominee for the run for the presidency  of the United States.
 I understand that if you come in first in these early caucus you get a s**t load of money, and if you if don't  nobody wants to know your name. I understand that is why a lot of candidates say goodbye. The problem is that it in't very democratic.
Maybe the primaries are a kind of Darwinism, survival of the fittest candidates.
Why is it that most of the media ( I'm really talking about television) will have debates and would leave candidates out, then hire pundits who complain that there's too much money being spent on election of candidates. What's a pundit anyway? Someone who dents puns?
Why do they call these question and answer news conferences debates? Actually there Sunday talk shows.
Why don't we have debates on the presumptive problems of the day and how they should be fixed. Kind of like the debates one has on the debating teams in high school and in college.
I think the reason we can't have anything that resembles a debate is because the networks have to showcase there million dollar talent. ( I'm not sure the right word is talent).
One thing these primaries are good at, putting on television shows that equal any reality show having goofball characters.