Policy: What has happened to politics?

As ferr'iner I've been thinking about that for some time. I just didn't express it so well

My take on this is that the public are so "bad" that we have to be lied to and bamboozled.Television has done this to us.
There are two types of television.The only type that is any good is where it acts like a very high powered pair of binoculars.The coverage of a sporting event for example where what you see,as in the Grand National,would have been taking place had TV not been invented.Once the tapes go up at the start you see something pure.It is merely a production value to render the binocular effect more perfect.Even a football match retains most of this sort of purity but less than a horse race.
The other type of television,which is where the problem is,is generated out of television itself and your brain is being manipulated by television people.This gets bewildering and the more so the more you know about such a tautological process.
Politics,being easy and cheap to cover,is very useful for TV companies profit margins and allows them to exert influence on policy as well which is against the grain of the democratic process in that they have not been elected and their recruitment procedures are veiled in such a mist that it is easy to suspect nepotism as the prime agent and that is a force which the French people were forced to do something about in the late 18th century.I say forced because a nepotistic power cannot stop itself from eating everything else up in the nature of things.The odd thing is that television is very quick to point to such failings in other areas of life.
Because television is an urban phenomena urban values are precedent to rural values.Fox-hunting has not been banned to save foxes.It has been banned because campaigns to ban it made cheap and easy TV and the target of the campaign was a rural minority who probably didn't consume television much as they are too busy producing food at prices which leave us with something left over to buy other products advertised.

My gut feeling is that the second type of television should be excised from our lives but I have no expectation of this being done until it becomes a neccessity.Ratings chasing is a ridiculous idea because it tries to be all things to all people and that sort of thing looks daft even in the pub.The inoffensive Mr Nice Guy has an inferiority complex and so does television because it knows that all the second type of TV is one giant falsehood.Neither will ever admit it though.
Watch for the "cuts and joins" which you don't see in sports coverage unless a streaker gets on the scene.Once you see "cuts and joins" you do not know what it is.Somebody with an agenda did the cutting and the joining.OK?