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Presidential press conferences are the only opportunity for anyone in this society to direct questions to a president in public.1 In Great Britain, in contrast, members of Parliament frequently have the opportunity to question the Prime Minister. The British system might be argued to be better than ours, for one can be reasonably sure that members of an opposition party will ask rather tougher questions than the ostensibly neutral reporters who question our presidents.
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Geis, M.L. (1987). A Brief Look at Presidential Press Conferences. In: The Language of Politics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4714-2_9
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