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Posts Tagged ‘ Erving Goffman ’

Meet the Bigots: When Popular Culture and Unpopular Politicians Collide

April 29, 2010

By Cornel Sandvoss

Rarely has television fiction been replicated and superseded by actual events as drastically as in Wednesday’s meeting of UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown with Rochdale-based pensioner Gillian Duffy.
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Tags: bigot, Erving Goffman, Gillian Duffy, Gordon Brown, politics, The Thick of It, Yes Minister
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