Rehearse your lines until you have them down cold.

As if he mastred there a double spirit Of teaching, and of learning instantly

Its preference for and insistence on personalities, show biz, image, sensationalism and even scandalism, that is on the dramatic dimensions of politics, in the long run affected the nature of the relations among political actors, between political leaders and public opinion, between politicians and news professionals. To a certain extent, politics has become an hostage of the news media.

It was another of those political band-aids patted over a minor sore.