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Feral Beasts: An Introduction to Tony Blair's Reuters Speech on the Media
Author(s) -
SEATON JEAN
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the political quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-923X
pISSN - 0032-3179
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-923x.2007.00891.x
Subject(s) - prime minister , power (physics) , government (linguistics) , media studies , private life , media coverage , public life , sociology , political science , law , politics , linguistics , philosophy , human rights , physics , quantum mechanics
One of Prime Minister Blair's last speeches was on his governments relationship to the media, and the at times damaging impact of the ‘sensation hungry media’ on every aspect of public life, many of whom were too frightened to take on the ‘feral beasts’. He argued that his government had to attempt to deal with the media power, that ‘spin’ is an attempt to handle that power, that the media attack private life and that in the end the media must manage themselves. The piece includes his speech, the revealing questions and answers, and commentary on them by a series of distinguished journalists and academics.