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The damage matters
The damaged relationship between public life and the media matters.
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Public Life and the Media
Public Life and the Media☜Debategraph worked with the Prime Ministers Office to map the debate arising from Tony Blairs final Our Nations Future lecture as Prime Minister on the systemic problems between politics and the media in the 21st Century. The lecture was given at the Reuters Institute on 12 June 2007.☜F1CEB7
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What is the state of the relationship?
What is the state of the relationship?☜What is the state of the relationship between public life and the media?☜FFB597
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The relationship is in need of repair
The relationship is in need of repair☜The relationship between public life and media is damaged and in need of repair.☜59C6EF
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The damage matters
The damage matters☜The damaged relationship between public life and the media matters.☜9FDEF6
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Hinders our ability to take right decisions
Hinders our ability to take right decisions☜The damaged relationship between politics and the media reduces our capacity to take the right decisions, in the right spirit for our future.☜9FDEF6
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Compels others to respond in kind
Compels others to respond in kind☜The media appetite for impact and sensation compels others to respond in kind. NGOs and pundits know that unless they are prepared to go over the top, they shouldn’t venture out at all. ☜9FDEF6
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Institutions undermined by resulting cynicism
Institutions undermined by resulting cynicism☜The interaction between politics and media breeds a cynicism about politics and public life that undermines the country’s institutions.☜9FDEF6
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Lack of balanced coverage demoralising
Lack of balanced coverage demoralising☜Talk to any public service leader – especially in the NHS or the field of law and order – and they will tell you not that they mind the criticism, but they become totally demoralised by the completely unbalanced nature of it.☜9FDEF6
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Public need to be informed
Public need to be informed☜The public need to be properly and accurately informed, and this need is not well served by the current state of the relationship between politics and the media.☜9FDEF6
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Waste energy rebutting misleading interpretation
Waste energy rebutting misleading interpretation☜A large amount of energy in public life is expended rebutting claims about the significance of things said, that bears little or no relation to what was intended.☜9FDEF6
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Analysis and investigation marginalized
Analysis and investigation marginalized☜Counter-intuitively, the emergence of rolling-24 hour news stations, and the associated expansion in political coverage, tends to work against rather than in favour of detailed analysis and investigation.☜9FDEF6
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Damage concerns politicians and media more than public
Damage concerns politicians and media more than public☜People outside politics and the media tend to be less obsessed with the nuances of every political news story than politicians and the media and often have a better grasp of the essential facts than they credited with by politicians and the media.☜EF597B
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The power of the media is overstated
The power of the media is overstated☜The analysis overstates the relative power of the media to shape events. Government actions shape events far more powerfully and directly than the media coverage of those events.☜EF597B
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Tony Blair
Tony Blair☜Explore the arguments advanced by the Prime Minister in the debate.☜FFFACD
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How has the damage arisen?
How has the damage arisen?☜How has the damage between Public Life and the Media arisen?☜FFB597
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Relationship has always been fraught
Relationship has always been fraught☜The relationship has always been fraught. From Stanley Baldwin’s statement about “power without responsibility being the prerogative of the harlot through the ages” to the often extraordinarily brutal treatment meted out to Gladstone and Disraeli.☜EF597B
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The relationship should be fraught
The relationship should be fraught☜It is one of the roles of the media to act as a tenacious check on the government of the day and hold government and state officials accountable. The relationship between public officials and the media should be fraught.☜EF597B
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