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Originally Posted by the ikara cult
I think its because we dont have a culture of vicious debate that cuts beyond the fault of Radio 4 and the editorial pages.
If you look at the US, they have a cable news tradition that creates things like Fox News, MSNBC, as well as a radio tradition with the Rush Limbaughs. Thats an environment thats fertile ground for combative and controversy-ridden discourse. If you ever watch American cable "news" half of it is devoted to how outrageous and reprehensible someone on the opposite side is. In the UK thats the region of the news that satire and parody controls, not "serious journalism"
Not wanting to sound provincial, but this is the UK, and we just dont do things like that, dont you know
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That's what we need, a culture of vicious debate, though somehow the American style (from the little I've seen) doesn't quite seem like the best way. That's something else I've been disappointed about in uni: the lecturers aren't interested debate, the students aren't interested in debate... everybody's right!!
We're a meek and mild people, generally.