David Cameron's director of communications has made the Maria Miller's expenses story about himself, rather than the "far more substantive point" of press freedom, said a former Telegraph editor who claimed his team had been warned off investigations.
Nonetheless, the UNICEF chief - who throughout the three-day conference dashed tirelessly from meetings with Heads of State, to substantive panels, to press briefings with children - was upbeat.
Some China specialists in the U.S. government saw it as a chance to press on substantive issues.
"It is Mr. Colbert's view that he is fully capable of speaking to the press on substantive matters related this advisory opinion request," he told The Huffington Post.
He occasionally pretends to deliver substantive speeches, and the press, not knowing what else to do, discusses those speeches, even though most of the shit Trump said could have come from the mouth of a vaguely racist suburban teen half-drunk on two BuzzBallz.
It helped that Shorten showed no inclination to press on the substantive point – Shorten went all meta – observing how terrible it was for the prime minister to have colleagues leaking against him.
So obsessed is the political world with how the two men get along and so starved is the national press corps for substantive campaign news that the event has taken on the proportions of a miniature summit or, a "monster unity meeting," as Sam Donaldson labeled it on the Sunday morning talk show of which he is a co-host.
Developing substantive policies, dealing with the press, retail campaigning and debating Jerry Brown were all straight-forward.
Adopt meaningful causes that are women-friendly enough to get you on "Oprah" but substantive enough for "Meet the Press" (re: Mrs. Bush's advocacy for Afghani women and children).
