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Tony Blair
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Public Life and the Media »
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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Tony Blair
Tony Blair☜Explore the arguments advanced by the Prime Minister in the debate.☜D3B8AB
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The relationship is in need of repair »
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.☜FFFACD
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Revise the media regulatory framework »
Revise the media regulatory framework
Revise the media regulatory framework☜Revision of the media regulatory framework could help to repair the damaged relationship between public life and the media.☜FFFACD
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How independent are civil servants, really? »
How independent are civil servants, really?
How independent are civil servants, really?☜Full time government clearly works in its own self interest, not necessarily in the public interest? ☜FFFACD
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Context of communication is changing »
Context of communication is changing
Context of communication is changing☜The objective circumstances in which the world of communications operate have radically altered; altering in turn the relationship between public life and media. Its not the people who have changed; it is the context within which they work.☜FFFACD
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Media competition is intensifying »
Media competition is intensifying
Media competition is intensifying☜The media are facing a hugely more intense form of competition than anything they have ever experienced before.☜FFFACD
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Newspapers face new competition on-line »
Newspapers face new competition on-line
Newspapers face new competition on-line☜Newspapers are fighting for a share of a shrinking market. Many are now read on-line, not the next day. News is becoming increasingly a free good, provided online without charge.☜FFFACD
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Proliferation of TV channels »
Proliferation of TV channels
Proliferation of TV channels☜In 1982, 3 TV stations broadcast in the UK. Today there are hundreds, including rolling 24 hour news programmes covering events as they unfold. The main BBC and ITN bulletins once had audiences of 8, even 10, million. Today the average is half that.☜FFFACD
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Technology transforming the media »
Technology transforming the media
Technology transforming the media☜The media world is becoming more fragmented, more diverse and transformed by technology – and the changes will only intensify.☜FFFACD
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Boundaries between media blurring »
Boundaries between media blurring
Boundaries between media blurring☜The forms of communication are merging and interchanging. The BBC website is crucial to the modern BBC. Papers have Podcasts and written material on the web.☜FFFACD
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Growing influence of the internet »
Growing influence of the internet
Growing influence of the internet☜Internet advertising has overtaken newspaper ads. There are roughly 70 million blogs in existence, with around 120,000 being created every day. ☜FFFACD
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Media management responds to and fuels trends »
Media management responds to and fuels trends
Media management responds to and fuels trends☜PM acknowledges own complicity: We paid inordinate attention in the early days of New Labour to courting, assuaging, and persuading the media. – running the risk of fuelling the trends now identified as detrimental.☜FFFACD
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MPs favour press releases over speeches »
MPs favour press releases over speeches
MPs favour press releases over speeches☜Backbench MPs today learn to give a press release first and a good Parliamentary speech second.☜FFFACD
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Shifting political focus towards the TV studio »
Shifting political focus towards the TV studio
Shifting political focus towards the TV studio☜Political focus gravitating towards the television studio and away from Parliament.☜FFFACD
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Hinders our ability to take right decisions »
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.☜FFFACD
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The damage matters »
The damage matters
The damage matters☜The damaged relationship between public life and the media matters.☜FFFACD
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Media hyperactivity can be overwhelming »
Media hyperactivity can be overwhelming
Media hyperactivity can be overwhelming☜A vast aspect of our jobs today – outside of the really major decisions, as big as anything else – is coping with the media, its sheer scale, weight and constant hyperactivity. At points, it literally overwhelms. ☜FFFACD
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Insatiable demand for the next story »
Insatiable demand for the next story
Insatiable demand for the next story☜The news schedule is now 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It moves in real time, and outstanding speed, creating an insatiable demand for the next story and an instantaneous response to events.☜FFFACD
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Clamour for instant response distorts process »
Clamour for instant response distorts process
Clamour for instant response distorts process☜In the 1960s the government would sometimes, on a serious issue, have a Cabinet lasting two days. It would be laughable to think you could do that now without the heavens falling in before lunch on the first day.☜FFFACD
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Mistakes fuel the drama »
Mistakes fuel the drama
Mistakes fuel the drama☜Mistakes may, in turn, fuel the story and quickly transfer a drama into crisis.☜FFFACD
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Valuable time for reflection lost »
Valuable time for reflection lost
Valuable time for reflection lost☜Frequently, in responding to stories in real time, the problem is as much assembling the facts as giving them; with the need for an instantaneous response increasing the risk of mistakes being made.☜FFFACD
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Single issue of the day no longer enough »
Single issue of the day no longer enough
Single issue of the day no longer enough☜During 1997 election – just ten years ago – we took an issue a day. In 2005, we had to have one for the morning, another for the afternoon and by the evening the agenda had already moved on.☜FFFACD
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Compels others to respond in kind »
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. ☜FFFACD
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Institutions undermined by resulting cynicism »
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.☜FFFACD
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Public trust in politicians and journalists is low »
Public trust in politicians and journalists is low
Public trust in politicians and journalists is low☜Politicians and the media are both being dragged down by the way media and public life interact. Trust in journalists is not much above that in politicians.☜FFFACD
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Reporting of Parliament suggests declining importance »
Reporting of Parliament suggests declining importance
Reporting of Parliament suggests declining importance☜Current media coverage of Parliament conveys the impression that the importance of Parliament is in decline.☜FFFACD
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Non-controversial speeches ignored »
Non-controversial speeches ignored
Non-controversial speeches ignored☜No matter how excellent, attention tends only to be given to maiden speeches, second reading speeches or committee speeches when they generate major controversy.☜FFFACD
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Large majority changes context of voting »
Large majority changes context of voting
Large majority changes context of voting☜The scale of Governments majority is a factor in the voting records of Prime Ministers.☜FFFACD
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Pre-legislative scrutiny has increased »
Pre-legislative scrutiny has increased
Pre-legislative scrutiny has increased☜There is far greater pre-legislative scrutiny than ever before.☜FFFACD
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More statements in the House of Commons »
More statements in the House of Commons
More statements in the House of Commons☜PM has made more statements in the House of Commons.☜FFFACD
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More time spent answering questions in Commons »
More time spent answering questions in Commons
More time spent answering questions in Commons☜PM has spent longer answering questions in the House of Commons than either of his two predecessors in the same period of time.☜FFFACD
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No lines of accountabilty altered »
No lines of accountabilty altered
No lines of accountabilty altered☜The Government hasnt altered any of the lines of accountability between Parliament and the Executive.☜FFFACD
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Only PM to attend Commons Liaison Committee »
Only PM to attend Commons Liaison Committee
Only PM to attend Commons Liaison Committee☜The Prime Minister is the only PM to attend the Commons Liaison Committee.☜FFFACD
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Lack of balanced coverage demoralising »
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.☜FFFACD
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Public need to be informed »
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.☜FFFACD
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Waste energy rebutting misleading interpretation »
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.☜FFFACD
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Market opportunity for serious balanced news »
Market opportunity for serious balanced news
Market opportunity for serious balanced news☜There is a market opportunity in providing serious, balanced news.☜FFFACD
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Public desire for impartiality »
Public desire for impartiality
Public desire for impartiality☜There is a desire for impartiality. The way that people get their news may be changing; but the thirst for the news being real news is not.☜FFFACD
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New forms of media can be worse »
New forms of media can be worse
New forms of media can be worse☜New forms can be even more pernicious, less balanced, more intent on the latest conspiracy theory.☜FFFACD
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Rationalise accountability structures across media »
Rationalise accountability structures across media
Rationalise accountability structures across media☜The structure of the regulatory framework should recognise and reflect the convergence of the previously distinct media sectors of print, broadcasting, and the internet.☜FFFACD
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Current accountability system becoming obsolete »
Current accountability system becoming obsolete
Current accountability system becoming obsolete☜As the technology blurs the distinction between papers and television, it becomes increasingly irrational to have different systems of accountability – the PCC and OFCOM – based on technology that no longer can be differentiated in the old way.☜FFFACD
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Consumers lack objective yardstick »
Consumers lack objective yardstick
Consumers lack objective yardstick☜Viewers or readers have no objective yardstick to measure what they are being told.☜FFFACD
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