Why politicians and television still need each other
In this cross posting from The Conversation, Queensland University of Technology professor Brian McNair delves into why politicians still love being invited onto The Project and reminds us all why Tony Abbott appeared on Big Brother.
We are living through a period of particularly combative media-politics relations, driven largely by the Trump presidency and the ongoing “fake news” debate. But, as an ABC Rear View documentary reminded us recently, tension or outright hostility between politicians and journalists is far from new.
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For decades, in every democratic country with a genuinely free and independent media, the two groups have danced around each other like reluctant suitors. There has been occasional bursts of name-calling, sulking and tears when it all goes pear-shaped.
The truth is, both groups need the other.
