Press, Politics and Lying Bastards

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I watched the videos and it is interesting to see what you say from an outsider's perspective. Across the pond we have abandoned respect and deference long ago, not having the politeness gene so well developed as you Brits. And the result is, as far as I can see, all politicians are considered liars and campaign promises are sort of irrelevant. All media are self-promoting jerks just looking for their chance to score. And the public either takes a side and cheers and boos as if it were sports, or gets tired of it all and ignores the whole thing.

This is to say I watched the Paxman-Howard interview first and found it to be utterly TAME by our standards. We are pretty fucked up here and I don't know how it'll get better.