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The debate between the potential foreign secretaries and the voters of Stourbridge on today's Politics Show found William Hague on the receiving end of the lion's share on Jon Sopel's interruptions and questions. Discounting those interruptions where Jon Sopel cut his guests short for reasons of time or to go to the audience, William Hague was interrupted 9 times, while both David Miliband and Ed Davey were interrupted just 4 times.
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David Miliband wasn't so lucky with the audience!
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P.S. It says something about the BBC's live election blog that they saw fit to quote only one of the three politicians on the show. Can you guess which one? Clue: he always pronounces the word 'year' as 'yah' and his daddy was a Marxist professor.
J Paxman interview with Cameron was like an interogation while Paxmans interview with Brown for the first 10 minutes was just as bad but then Paxman said nothing allowing Brown to waffle on for 20 minutes. Paxman could be heard to breath deeply in the back ground as if he was trying to interupt but could not because Brown would not stop talking. The reality is it was a put up job with Paxman having no intention to interogate Brown. Talk about devious bias.
ReplyDeleteAndrew Marr has had a long track history of doing just that too. Naughtie also does it (the John Denham interview being only the latest of many examples).
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