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Thread #74937   Message #1311326
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
30-Oct-04 - 08:02 AM
Thread Name: BS: Michael Moore on Question Time
Subject: RE: BS: Michael Moore on Question Time
"Didn't see it." Try that link I gave at the top of this thread if you wish to do so. It'll be there till Thirsday. (Then that link woudl gve you teh noirmal domestic version.

I thought David Dimbleby felt inhibited, as a kind of guest, bout trying to control things, and hold people to the question the way he very effectively does at home.

Don't Americans have this kind of programme where the idea is for actual dicussion? I'd have thought in a country with a tradition of town meetings it would be second nature. There are similar programmes in some other countries, and they don't seem to have this problem. Andthere have been plenty of guest appearances by Americans on Question Time where they had no pribem at all in sticking pretty well to the subject. I wondered if it was that the ground rules hadn't been properly explained.

Perhaps some other part of the USA might have worked better. Florida, I gather, is a bit strange in sme ways...