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Blair & The TV; Naivete or Integrite?
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TOPIC: Blair & The TV; Naivete or Integrite?
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Blair & The TV; Naivete or Integrite? 14 Years ago
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Having got the pretension out of the way in the thread title, here's something to ponder. Getting the chief politcos together for a TV head to head in the past was rather like getting the Beatles to reform They all agreed to it, just never at the same time. Except in the case of one man: Tony Blair, who steadfastly refused to engage with the medium in this way. Had Blair, I'd contend, been standing instead of Brown, Clegg and Cameron would have been left standing. And I say that as, assuredly, no fan of Blair. He'd have wiped the {studio} floor with any opposition candidate brave enough to be put up for the job. So where does this leave the future of British elections in the future? The last years have seen the rise to {unashamedly open} spin meistering and the triumph of presentation over substance. I fear that the TV debates, spoon fed to a British public too stupid to know whether the BNP are a fascist party or not, have simply provided the first example of election by Media Dictat.
I heard Julian Fellowes make an interesting remark on the radio today. He said that this election appeared to be more like voting to invite someone to dinner rather than to lead the Government. I have to say that he said much more in those few words than all the candidates for the post have said over the last month. So was Blair showing a truly uncharacteristic integrity in his refusal of TV debate, or did he and Campbell just miss an ideal opportunity for him to found his own personal thousand year Reich?
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