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How Un-Interviewable Politicians Are Trumping Politics
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10:29Now Playing“A problem that I think we are going to come up with more and more…is politicians, people in politics, not engaging with the media in good faith.”
Politicians are increasingly turning interviews into clippable moments for their own purposes and trying to make the interviewer “look silly”, says The Sunday Mirror’s deputy political editor, Mikey Smith.
Kate Ferguson and Mikey Smith were speaking to John Pienaar on Times Radio Drive. Listen live every Monday to Thursday from 4pm–7pm.
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