If most reporting is about motive and fallout, it becomes the reporting of political calculation, and therefore assumes that political decisions are all about calculation, and nothing else. No wonder, then, that the citizens, when fed this kind of reporting, believe, as the media lead them to believe, that all politics is calculation, that no politician ever thinks about the national interest, the substance of issues, and what is right or wrong, as opposed to what will sell or not.
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IN November 2007, Finance Minister James Flaherty announced the second one-point reduction in the Goods and Services Tax. The Conservatives had promised this two-point ...