Alastair Campbell, backroom media deals and New Labour spin (12Nov09)

Alastair Campbell tells porkies about how New Labour NEVER did any deals with the press / BBC on media management of New Labour stories.

Recorded from BBC's This Week, 12 November 2009.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• alastair
• campbell
• porkies
• lies
• spin
• uk
• media
• press
• manipulation
• new
• labour
• bbc

[eldrak21]

The newspapers should report nothing but the truth in a truthful unbiased way. Saying that, I realised long ago that the sun ceased to be a newspaper and instead became an entertainment magazine.

I had a thought recently, I wonder how successfull it would be to setup eg a boycott the sun paper campaign on something like facebook and try to get as many people as possible to not buy it on a given day.. the same applies to the other similiar papers. Any suggestions?

[lionelsnappi]

"Well I'd probably help more than you do, Diane, that's for sure." Killer closing line

[felix3840]

Alastair Campbell is a war criminal, so who cares what he thinks about anything? And why is he on TV so often, giving his worthless opinions? Who ever voted for him? His role during Blair's illegal wars was the equivalent of those of Joseph Goebbels and Julius Streicher during Hitler's.

Alastair Campbell should be in jail for his crimes and hopefully will be one day.

[guydecervens]

I don't understand why people are surprised. Campbell is a trained liar. It's what he does for a living. The only thing that might surprise the uneducated is how gullible the ignorant are but then we should understand they have been trained to be gullible ..... by people like Campbell! To the guillotine with the likes of him.

[excusez1992]

alastair knocks socks off the other people in this interview, including the interviewer

[coatihook666]

"Alastair Campbell tells porkies about how New Labour NEVER did any deals with the press / BBC on media management of New Labour stories."

He said they didn't make deals on policy. He's referring to the fact that Tory media policy is basically dictated verbatim by Murdoch's son. Murdoch had to bend to Labour in 1997, rather different to the Tories today.

[jas407]

that's basically what he is and has been since his mirror days. no doubt he'll be appreciated by labour in some capacity as they try and spin their way to a fourth consecutive victory.

[imangrynow]

@jas407 Tory by any chance?! "Gutter snipe" Christ! Talk about stuck up...

[imangrynow]

@eldrak21 unfortunately the only people who'd join you wouldn't buy it anyway!

I've got more time for Campbell than the rest of the New Labour lot, what you see is what you get!

[pondman27]

"Level media playing field"!!!

These performers have long lost all integrity. They operate within a corporatocracy, where money is conjured through the imposition of infinite debt by fictional non human entities that regard humans as nothing more than resources.

They now conspire to bring in their long standing global government, a psuedocommunist corporatocracy that will rule with an iron rod & that even now, is seeking to further its Malthusian population control.