Just when you thought politics was getting back to normal (?), up pops Tony Blair’s former spin-doctor Alistair Campbell. The former Daily Mirror hack let rip at the media with all guns blazing last night.
He gave a highly critical speech about the media today and claims that the increase of new forms of news reporting through the spread of 24-hour channels and the internet hasn’t led to any improvement in journalism standards, particularly when they report about what is happening in government.
I’ve read the full transcript, and it made me want to throw up. Here is a man who constantly bleats about the role of the media when for nearly seven years he thought of his role was to hijack the daily news agenda…. but he regularly came unstuck when journalists investigated and found out the truth about what the government… and he … were up to. The now-infamous Iraq war dossier, and the burying of bad news on 9/11 were two examples of this.
Campbell should be hitting the real target for this anger, which should be the current government for repeatedly lying to the public on a regular basis. Day after day, newspapers are finding out that after ten years of a Labour government, UK society as a whole seems more worse off. Maybe he should repent for his sins, and join the demands for Gordon Brown and his cohorts to be kicked out of office.
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