Shambles

Don Thompson's analysis sounds right to me. But that's all I can say. I am completely ignorant of political reality in England.

If his reading is right, he is also right about publicity.

In the states, with the occasional exception of NPR, the media is NOT interested in the written word, no matter how elegantly done and flawlessly argued.

What the media wants is something that LOOKS interesting enough to warant 10 seconds or so on the 10 o'clock news. They want street theater.

I have this vision of a hoard of aging folkies with ancient gas masks and placards linking arms and singing "We shall overcome" and calling 20-something policemen "pigs" and doing something disruptive in a public place at rush hour. What a sight!