Manuel discovered that the viewers of his talk show were frequently requesting a discussion about organic foods to be aired on his show. manuel went around looking for candidates that would be ideal for a panel discussion. his producer sent invitations to different people from different fields of study hoping that four would agree to come. to his surprise, he found that most of them were willing to come to the discussion. he ended up with a list of ten people who would be ideal for the discussion. he sent resource material to each of the participants. on the day of the discussion, the participants interacted with each other for some time before the discussion began.