02-03-2004, 10:00 AM | #21 | |
Elf Lord
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Re: Re: The Hutton Report
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Governments now employ legions of (often publicly-funded) communications staff whose sole purpose is to manipulate the public perception of what the politicians are up to. T'was ever thus, you might say. But wouldn't you accept that in recent years, this dark art has reached ever greater heights of sophistication? Or would you regard Alastair Campbell as a civil servant whose prime motive was to tell the truth to the people of Britain, rather than to make the Prime Minister and the Government seem pure as the driven snow? In this light, being fair means being manipulated; to be free, the media have to be hostile. |
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