Anyone who, as I do, regularly hurls the morning paper at the dog when reading of the next proposed lunacy must feel a dull sense of indifference creep on. We have asuprisingly representive and alert press, we have political television reportage, we have a growing blogsphere. And what really happens? The politicos have learned to use it, pollute it, dilute it and traduce it to their own ends; and ignore the muted responses of a supine population who neither trust them nor know how to get rid of them. The really crazy ideas are floated to keep our eyes off the underlying sewage, and are quickly abandoned to show, ‘we really do listen’.
Anyone who, as I do, regularly hurls the morning paper at the dog when reading of the next proposed lunacy must feel a dull sense of indifference creep on. We have asuprisingly representive and alert press, we have political television reportage, we have a growing blogsphere. And what really happens? The politicos have learned to use it, pollute it, dilute it and traduce it to their own ends; and ignore the muted responses of a supine population who neither trust them nor know how to get rid of them. The really crazy ideas are floated to keep our eyes off the underlying sewage, and are quickly abandoned to show, ‘we really do listen’.