media coverage of Labour

tribunite Sat Jul 01, 2006 at 01:53:51 AM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

we are giving the media huge ammunition of course, like the dying days of Thatcher and Major, but they do love it dont they.  I dont remember the media pack feasting with such violence and consistency as they are doing now with our misfortune.  Is this terminal?  What is to be done.  I am not convinced that Gordon Brown will be treated with any more objectivity, wont they just rip into him too?  





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by snowflake5 on Sat Jul 01, 2006 at 04:14:09 PM GMT

Perhaps they need to bring back Alaistair Campbell!  While he was around, it seemed that he'd pounce on every erroneous story out there, forcing his rebuttal to be aired at the same time as the original allegation. Since he's gone, they seem to have gotton slack.

It doesn't help with silly folk feeding the media monster - eg Charles Clarke last week, and the whole deputy prime minister thing, and the whole briefing about Blair and Brown feud.

Also, Hazel Blears is all wrong as the face of the party. She's too patronising and irritating. They needed someone sympatico that the public liked.  The public like the following people: Margaret Beckett, Alaistair Darling, Tessa Jowell, Alan Johnson, John Denham, Hilary Benn, David Milliband from the little they've seen of him. John Reid is irritating, Ruth Kelly allows herself to get shot down over religion (and I'm sorry to sound catty but she looks a mess), and of course the biggie - people don't like Blair anymore.

Gordon Brown is interesting - people come away from his budget speeches feeling warm and happy always. The negative comes from him taking the bait on Englishness, and trying to have a "British" agenda, and trying to be cool (Arctic Monkeys). That's just not him. He should stick to the solid brainy competence thing.


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