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I Want To Know Where Real Journalism Has Gone

In Britain, politicians were occasionally interviewed on the street, but more often in TV studios. There seems to be a new approach, particularly over the past seven days, where television journalists stand outside politician's front doors in the morning and film them as they walk to their car. No questions are ever answered, but the footage then appears on the news anyway. Why is it in the public interest to see Jeremy Corbyn walk up his garden, then get in his car and go to work each day?

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wonderstruck · 31-35, M

That sir, is the confirmation of the transformation of journalism to paparazzi.

GlassDog · 41-45, M

It is. How sad this drive towards superficiality is.

wonderstruck · 31-35, M

It's like that here in the U.S. Especially during elections, they are the paparazzi on that. But even if they don't follow around politicians, they still talk about them.

GlassDog · 41-45, M

@wonderstruck: The media coverage of US politics is quite interesting to me because we are usually just five years behind you on media trends.

wonderstruck · 31-35, M

One of our candidates is a master at media communication. Unfortunately the two choices of candidates this year for president are the sourest in my lifetime. Nothing has been worse since this election. You're rolling the dice on the country's fate no matter who you vote for president.

GlassDog · 41-45, M

@wonderstruck: He is. A British journalist was saying yesterday that, in person, he's very charming and personable, but that he turns into a media monster when a camera is turned on him. Hillary seems exactly the opposite. She's well-meaning but creates such a poor public image. Neither of them bode well for American relations with the rest of the world. I'm not saying a president [b]has[/b] to be a diplomat, but it helped that Obama and Bill Clinton clearly are/were.