Schieffer: When politicians don't answer questions

CBS News Sunday 9th October, 2011

(CBS News) I gave a talk on the campus of SMU in Dallas last week and I got the question I always get: "Why is it so hard to get politicians to answer a question anymore?" Well, here is why: In this age of sophisticated information management and consultant-driven politics where everyone has a media coach and a strategy guru, it is all the vogue in...

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