Is it time for the media
to stop taking politics seriously?
Journalism is supposed to
be the “first rough draft of history”. Try to imagine a
12th-grade American history student writing an essay on “White
House communications policy, 20 June to 2 August 2017” – or a
British history sixth former tackling “The evolution of Brexit
policy while Theresa May was on holiday”.
Former editor of the
ConservativeHome website, former comment supremo and columnist at the
Times, Tim Montgomerie thinks that politics – its promises and
posturing – has gained far too much prominence and caused too much
cynicism and disappointment in the process; the business of
government chained to a spinning wheel of misfortune. Of course there
are deeper, more stable topics to think about: religion and economic
cycles....for instance.
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