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Sun Editor abuses spouse?

 
  

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Axolotl
14:05 / 07.11.05
I don't think the question is whether or not things are bad for Blair right now, it's whether this story had any real impact in attracting attention away from that. I'd tend to agree with Fridge that it didn't.
Even if it did, the story happening now is still far more likely to be coincidental than some cunning plan to save Blair from embarrassment.
 
 
w1rebaby
14:40 / 07.11.05
I think the fact that you dont think things are significantly bad for Blair right now and he should be held to account is quite telling.

What do you mean by that?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:19 / 07.11.05
The story's pretty dead now. If it was an ettention-ditracting device, it was a pretty shit one. The big story now is- yup! Mr Tony and just how much of a prick he was pre-Iraq invasion.

You'd think an overarching media conspiracy would have been able to can that one, really.
 
 
Michelle Gale
08:29 / 08.11.05
What do you mean by that?

Sorry i didnt mean that to come across as patronizing as it did, I just meant that if you look at things objectively things should be worse for Blair now than they ever have been.

The story's pretty dead now. If it was an ettention-ditracting device, it was a pretty shit one. The big story now is- yup! Mr Tony and just how much of a prick he was pre-Iraq invasion.

You'd think an overarching media conspiracy would have been able to can that one, really.


But I think delaying it and breaking up the current of events affeting Tonys credibility in the readers minds with the Rebekah Wade "story" means, that a more passive news consumer will view the stories in isolation rather than being generally more pissed at Tony and his general incompetance.

(this may sound a bit mental)But theyve highjacked public concioussness in my opinion and that is kind of annoying.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
10:49 / 08.11.05
Having Blunkett involved in the story wouldn't have helped either...
 
 
Michelle Gale
19:39 / 08.11.05
Really? I think it would, by attaching Blunketts narrative to the story, you create associations in the mind of the reader. Perhaps the intention is that when the reader think of Blunkett they think of something far more interesting than the fact he resigned twice etc.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:15 / 08.11.05
But surely if you;re attempting to deflect attention from the crisis facing Blair you wouldn't chuck in references to someone inextricably linked with thim...


AAAAAARRRGHHHH.

Either way, it clearly didn't work, if indeed it ever existed. Surely that means that if such a conspiracy/rationale exists, it's a pretty piss-poor excuse for one and therefore not worth worrying about. I really can't be arsed to argue this anymore.

Can someone wake me up when we get back to Earth please?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
07:36 / 09.11.05
(Apologies for the above rant... now I reread it sober, it looks like a personal attack, which I'm pretty sure it wasn't supposed to be.)
 
 
Michelle Gale
08:25 / 09.11.05
Sorry? planet passive media bullshit comsuption?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
08:37 / 09.11.05
I guess I'm not even denying that stuff such as you describe DOES happen (it happens all the time... "the good day to bury bad news" email of 2001 was pretty much proof of this) I'm just not convinced that it was in this case. Or if it was, it doesn't seem to have worked. Knowing New Labour's obsessive talent for media manipulation, I think they could have done it a lot better if that's what they were doing.
 
  

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