Listen: I’m not naive. I know how this works.
Journalists’ job is to ask questions. Politicians’ job is to not answer those questions, but to make it seem like they did. And both are engaged in a perpetual game of cat and mouse – a clash of wills spanning epochs – wherein the politician tries to get away with talking absolute swill, delivered confidently and persuasively with an earnest facial expression, and the journalist tries to force the politician to commit to something for once in their life.
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