I was listening to the radio this morning, with Jon Snow questioning Nick Clegg. (for those overseas readers, Jon Snow is a veteran political commentator on British radio and Nick Clegg is leader of the Liberal democrat party and deputy prime minister of the UK government). As usual, Jon wasn't listening to the answers and was asking the same question, in different ways, over and over again in an increasingly harrassing manner. In response, Nick was getting more and more hysterical in his answers.
Politicians and commentators are both human; no more and no less than the rest of us. However, wouldn't you expect that people such as these, who are constatntly in the public eye and ear, would work and train really hard to learn about public speaking? Wouldn't you think that public life would necessitate the learning of good communication skills so that we, the listeners, would be able to hear decent content and not what sounds like the squabbling of 8 year olds in the school yard?
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