The media are largely responsible for the dire state of politics in this country.
The tracing app was supposed to be world beating. Hancock tells us that ours is great at measuring distance and Apple/Google good at the rest, so they are joining forces. Plausible but conveniently obscures the possibility someone got it wrong to start with.
Honesty does not pay - the media relish the idea of finding someone to blame, rather than finding the solution. So politicians varnish the reality in the hope of avoiding media pressure.
Another example - school meals for kids in the summer holidays. Get criticised for not giving the money - skinflint, they're children, hunger etc. Give the money and it's a U turn - the government are incapable of consistent policies etc.
Even the Cummings affair was a piece of disproportionate stirring by the media. Irrespective of the rights or wrongs of the eyesight testing trip, there were far more important issues to report upon. The media simply wanted column inches and viewer numbers so they conducted a witchhunt.
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