The Failings of the Serious Political Interview
Wildebeest Prolestrangler is probably the UK���s most famous celebrity political interviewer. Despite political interviews being about as interesting, informative and illuminating as a rather dull pebble on a very pebbly beach, the media likes to pretend – if only to themselves ��� that political interviews matter. Although, even though most of the viewing public would rather poke their own brains out through their ears with a very blunt knitting needle, the big political interview is somehow regarded by the media as carrying significant newsworthiness. Even to the point where it makes someone like Prolestrangler as famous as he is.
Although, to the general public, he is far more recognisable as the quizmaster on one of the more pretentiously tedious up-market early evening quiz programmes. Far more than he is regarded as an insightful and tenacious facilitator of the lying, evasion and duplicity that passes for the modern political interview.
For such is how low the political interview has fallen, with people not expecting it to provide any insight or illumination into what politicians like to think is their calling. Instead, it is ��� as every viewer or listener knows ��� just a public relations exercise. It is little more than an attempt at not creating any hostages to fortune. All while reassuring the politicians��� ever-dwindling group of supporters that they are not entirely ignored, dismissed and patronised by the political class. After all, a professional political class has no interest in the people or the country, but only in the perpetuation of their own position and lifestyle.
The only things ever remembered by anyone from a political interview are the gaffes, mistakes and cock-ups. So while the politicians involved do their utmost to sail through the situation unscathed, more and more interviewers like Prolestrangler see it as their job not to illuminate the political process ��� such that it is. Instead, they see themselves there to trip up the politician and prove to the viewers or listeners that the politician is as big a mendacious bastard as they���d already long suspected.
However, now Prolestrangler has decided that the political interview is a waste of time. Especially as now, most people only ever see their politicians on jungle-based reality programmes eating insects for no apparent reason. Although, many suspect that if the voting population had their way they would much more want to watch the politicians eaten by the insects, rather than the other way around.
Such is the contempt that politics and politicians are ��� quite rightly ��� held that TV personalities like Prolestrangler far that they are somehow contaminated by too close a contact with these creatures. Consequently, they have all, like Prolestrangler, now decided that – for the sake of their careers – they must move on. All feeling they must clamber out of the political cesspit and on into the real world, or as close to the real world as the media ever allows itself to get.
In that, we can only wish Wildebeest Prolestrangler the best for his future career and advertising voice-over earning potential.
