After chatting to @ProfRAHansen over ☕️ today in Berlin about Britain’s broken politics (not just Tory leadership, but Labour’s poor performance too), I’m reminded of this seminal speech by @jayrosen_nyu about the problems of “savvy” political journalism pressthink.org/2011/08/why-po…
The savvy style is reporting on Truss vs Sunak on who will win, not on what they’d do
The savvy style is Labour doing what they think journalists will think is savvy, not what’s right
And carry on that way and you get a politics so horribly divorced from everyday reality, but if everyone’s doing it there’s no electoral cost to playing the game that way