S01-EP15 - Richard Danbury on television debates, old vs new media & the BBC
TALKING POLITICS
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The Theatre of the Election
I always come out of these interviews feeling we've failed but that's because I'm a pessimist by nature. They sound different and react different when you're sitting in the gallery watching from how people at home view it. The key variable which is very curious is the instant polls which kind of dictate how they're perceived. So very interesting one was the one last year the Faraj Clegg interview which I did for the BBC. That was a debate. Yes and on that I thought Clegg did extremely well but the instant response thing said he did much worse than Faraj so expectations were changed. Another encounter which generated a lot of headlines and again shaped the narrative the election was the BBC
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