Blair e os seus ex-"apaniguados"

Uma surpreendente análise (feral beasts that hunt in packs) do Estado dos media britânicos pela mais improvável personalidade o Senhor Blair provocou a seguinte contra análise no Economist:

Mr Blair has a point when he identifies this age of journalism as one of mass impact. Many newspapers and television producers have discovered that people have short attention spans and a hunger for scandal, gossip and disgust. They feed them accordingly, often ignominiously, by bugging telephones and badgering celebrities (or merely those unlucky enough to have dated them). Mr Blair's team has played its part. It moved politics from Parliament to the television studio, and rewarded or chastised journalists by granting or withholding access to people in power.

Yet for all their failings, these clamorous media also produce some thoughtful reporting and opinion. And they have often been a more tenacious check on the government of the day than the official opposition. That journalists who once feted Mr Blair have now turned on him says more about how he has squandered his once considerable authority and the public's trust than it does about the state of British journalism.

A verdadeira razão para este ataque do político britânico que no Século XX mais terá tirado partido dos media aos seus ex "apaniguados" tem a ver com o estatuto de "ex". E, o entanto, Blair não deixa de ter razão, pelo que facto de "acordar" só na hora da despedida...

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