Especially when a politician shows up for several minutes to an hour to be interrogated by relatively-anonymous citizen journalists. I don't think humanity has

Especially when a politician shows up for several minutes to an hour to be interrogated by relatively-anonymous citizen journalists. I don't think humanity has seen anything like it, except maybe when print media was the only way to get news, where pubs and town criers would spread information and you might get a chance to "mob" a politician or leader in the streets to get a few answers out of them that the newspapers wouldn't print.