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Greg Dyke wades in...
Following the recent Demos Associates Event on the Media and Democracy, John Lloyd's thesis about What the media are doing to our politics is continuing to cause controversy. Former BBC chief Greg Dyke has waded into the debate in today's Independent. Dyke argues that "a government more obsessed by presentation than any of its predecessors" has a lot to answer for in the current breakdown in trust between politicians and the media.Alastair Campbell is marked out for particular opprobrium, who...
from : samhintonsmith
31st January 2005
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More on John Lloyd event
What the media are doing to our politicsDemos, London, 18th January 2005Speakers:John Lloyd, author What the Media are doing to our politics, editor FT Magazine and Demos AssociateIan Hargreaves, author of Journalism: truth or dare? and Demos TrusteeEddie Gibb, Head of Communications, Demos (chair)John Lloyd?s book What the media are doing to our politics (Constable, 2004) has generated controversy among journalists and media professionals. In it he argues that the media are no longer...
from : paulmiller
21st January 2005
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The past and the spurious
My argument, at each step of which I would argue it is possible to substitute "2005" for "1974" and "media" for "trade unions", goes like this:1. Little progress is made in debates about what the media are doing to our politics because whilst there is an overwhelming agreement that there is a problem, there is almost equally overwhelming pessimism that anything is ever going to change and bafflement about how change might be precipitated.2. The defining feature of this problem is that media...
from : pauljoseph
19th January 2005
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What the Media Are Doing to Our Politics
The debate certainly seems to be gathering momentum ? the Media Guardian ran lengthy discussion of the arguments in the book last week, Madeleine Bunting mentioned it in her column on Monday, and the proposal itself for a media institute has generated more coverage today. Copious notes were taken of the discussion last night, so a more detailed write-up will follow shortly, but in the meantime you can read a summary of the arguments made in the book by clicking here to get to the full text of...
from : duncanoleary
19th January 2005
