| Provides detail and context for big decisions SupportiveArgument1 #2699 "More often, the weakness of a law or glaring contradictions are missed in the mainstream, because no one has been bothering to cover the basics. Hansard is full of fine detailed scrutiny... It's where the killer questions arise from." |
Argument made by Mick Fealty: "No one has excluded parliament more than us. The newspapers simply stopped reporting parliament. We withdrew from parliament far before the government. If a government lives or dies by parliament, we no longer report it.
It may be dry, boring and repetitive, but in there is the detail (along with the devil) and the context for the big decisions are found. More often, the weakness of a law or glaring contradictions are missed in the mainstream, because no one has been bothering to cover the basics. Hansard is full of fine detailed scrutiny that is the blessed antidote to government spin. It's where the killer questions arise from, not the bodyline bowling (Blair's own fitting description of the average PM briefing or press conference these days) of senior political hacks, who increasingly subsist on lobby briefings and Westminster gossip."
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