I don't see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements - it's also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You've got to win public support.
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In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves.
Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation.
Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.
Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.
People want to have a voice and a say in what is news.
When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.
The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them.
People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.
The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels, both financial and in-kind, and corruption problems abound.
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
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