Ministers have rejected a demand that TV channels should be made to include details of upcoming parliamentary debates in their main news bulletins. (BBC)
Quite right too. You can't force Parliament on the people. Few even watch PMQs, the most lively part of parliamentary activity. Even people who are actually interested in politics don't much. I certainly don't. I don't have the time, for one thing. Who does?You can't strengthen democracy by forcing it on the people. Making them watch it is both illiberal and ultimately counter-productive. Instead of any compulsion for news companies to include parliament, reform parliament itself and politics as a whole so that the people of Britain actually choose to watch of their own volition.
The idea that the news should have to show parliament is arse about face. Parliament should attract the people, rather than force itself upon them.
