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Sideshow: Dumbing Down Democracy by Lindsay Tanner

Scribe, $32.95 pb, 240 pp, 9781921844065

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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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Sideshow: Dumbing Down Democracy by Lindsay Tanner

Scribe, $32.95 pb, 240 pp, 9781921844065

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Comments

Joel Deane
Tuesday, 14 June 2011 17:54
Gideon Haigh is right. Sideshow is a squib of a book. Tanner should have gone in much harder on the pollies and journos.

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