Sideshow: Dumbing Down Democracy
Scribe, $32.95 pb, 240 pp, 9781921844065
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Sideshow: Dumbing Down Democracy by Lindsay Tanner
by Gideon Haigh •
Bill Clinton discouraged politicians from picking fights with people who bought their ink by the barrel. Mindful of that advice, Lindsay Tanner has waited until the end of a career dedicated to the ‘serious craft of politics’ to remonstrate with the fourth estate about its fundamental unseriousness in reporting the democratic process.
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