Blair - does he have a point?
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http://politics.guardian.co.uk/tonyblai ... 76,00.html
Is the media really a 'feral beast', twisting and sensationalising all that it reports on? He seems to have a special hatred for the independent, a newspaper that reported in 2006 that Rupert Murdoch's newscorp had offered him a senior position for when he steps down as PM. Does he have a point or is it just hypocrisy and sour grapes on his part?
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http://politics.guardian.co.uk/tonyblai ... 76,00.html
Is the media really a 'feral beast', twisting and sensationalising all that it reports on? He seems to have a special hatred for the independent, a newspaper that reported in 2006 that Rupert Murdoch's newscorp had offered him a senior position for when he steps down as PM. Does he have a point or is it just hypocrisy and sour grapes on his part?
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See:
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/tonyblai ... 76,00.html
Is the media really a 'feral beast', twisting and sensationalising all that it reports on? He seems to have a special hatred for the independent, a newspaper that reported in 2006 that Rupert Murdoch's newscorp had offered him a senior position for when he steps down as PM. Does he have a point or is it just hypocrisy and sour grapes on his part?
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Tony Blair made the classic mistake of thinking that he could 'spin' the media. The media which, despite all its faults, is relatively free of political control bit back - and now Blair is whinging. After all, he has castrated Parliament and the media has had to be the only check on his campaign of rampant corruption and his brutal assault on civil liberties.
All I have to say to him is "Tough Sh*t!"
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Tony Blair made the classic mistake of thinking that he could 'spin' the media. The media which, despite all its faults, is relatively free of political control bit back - and now Blair is whinging. After all, he has castrated Parliament and the media has had to be the only check on his campaign of rampant corruption and his brutal assault on civil liberties.
All I have to say to him is "Tough Sh*t!"<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">Couldn't have put it better myself. [^]
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Look at the way US politics are showbiz, and it is heading that way here. Politics should actually be quite dull if things are going well.
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Hasn't anyone seen Mad Max 2- The Road Warrior? The Feral Kid was downright, er, feral.
Really objective reporting would be the same regardless of the political stance of the paper concerned, but the differences you see in the way news gets to the reader shows how much politics can influence what ought to be the giving of straight facts, as much as this is humanly possible. I've seen twisted reporting here of an issue in the company I work for, where a impression was giving by the leftish press in this instance which simply didn't correlate to what actually went on - and I was there at the event concerned!
As an aside, my better half picked up a copy of the <i>Mail</i> not long ago, and couldn't believe how much it had gone downhill since we left the Land of Hope and Glory some 10 years ago.
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Hasn't anyone seen Mad Max 2- The Road Warrior? The Feral Kid was downright, er, feral.
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SO who, in a post-apocalype world, taught the Feral Kid to speak?
In MM2 he can't manage more than a few grunts but by the end he's the narrator! How did that happen then?
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Economic Growth; as dead as a Yangtze River dolphin....
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Economic Growth; as dead as a Yangtze River dolphin....
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Agreed. Er ... except perhaps when we find a paper which echoes our own views?[;)]
Blair lives by the media anyway. Don't forget that his reluctance to pick up his US congressional medal can only be explained by how he fears it would play in the UK media. The UK media is a national disgrace but it can probably be attacked with legitimacy only by someone who has got a bit of integrity.
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Don't be shy. Tell us what you <i>really</i> think... [:o)]
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I think he does have a point, but considering his history of 'spinning' he is not in much of a position to make it. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
That sentence encapsulates the whole thing very well.
He who lives by spin, shall die by spin.
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I think he does have a point, but considering his history of 'spinning' he is not in much of a position to make it. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
That sentence encapsulates the whole thing very well.
He who lives by spin, shall die by spin.
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Does that not mean that everyone shall get very dizzy? [xx(]
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The press once accepted the press releases and even the "spin" but after they were led into supporting a war by a PM who not only lied to the press, but knowingly lied to and misled the House of Commons, is it surprising that he is no longer trusted or believed.
The cynicism and disbelief is a natural and responsible reaction to the lies and falsehoods.
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You're winding us up. The wan<i></i>ker is absolutely pointless.
Poor Tony! - even the leftist media chappies have abandoned him: http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/articl ... e_id=11383
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Surely, you don't really think that Blair ever had anything in common with the SWP?
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Now I guess I'll have to tell 'em
That I got no cerebellum
The media is a bloodsucking narcissistic pestilence-ridden censored spewing forth cultural nhilism and emotional incontinence to a sponge brained trivia-obsessed half educated existentially doomed joe public
Economic Growth; as dead as a Yangtze River dolphin....
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Does this mean that you are about to be exposed in the News of the World? Can we look forward to "Lecturer in five in a bed sex'n drugs orgy" this weekend? [:p]