By: scottdouglas

scottdouglas — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:17:48 +0000

Marvellous to see the reporter pricking the officiousness of numerous little bureaucrats – especially the main lurker who tries to interfere with her interviewing of the volunteers. (priceless put down: “I’ve covered many elections and its rare to come across someone like you.”)
I agree this is the kind of thing journalism lecturers should be sharing with their charges.
Scales fell from my eyes the first time I witnessed a reporter expertly batting aside a jobsworth with this kind of reasoned menace – it was David Thomson, now with the BBC Politic Show.
He managed to wrongfoot these people with an extremely pleasant manner which somehow still dripped with menace.
Suzanne Goldenberg shows the same seamless skill here: “Can you get me senior campaign official to confirm that breaching my constitutional rights is now Obama campaign policy?” Total genius.

By: JohnofScribbleSheet

JohnofScribbleSheet — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:47:41 +0000

I’ve been watching the Guardian Films and I think they have produced some great work so far. They’ve done a great job.

By: Adrian Monck

Adrian Monck — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:52:37 +0000

But we read it all the time…

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