Media will push for Tory victory?
06 10 08 - 04:34 David Cameron’s media bodyguard closed ranks around him last week, trying to keep the truth about him from coming out. Most of the exclusive club of political journalists decided some months ago that they will now support the Tories and give Mr Cameron the uncritical adulation they all gave to Princess Tony 11 years ago.This is Mr Cameron’s reward for wiping out the last remaining traces of proper conservatism in his party. When he says he ‘gets the modern world’, Mr Cameron is signalling to these people that he is one of them – relaxed about drugs, sexually liberal, opposed to ideas like discipline and punishment. This means that any speech he makes, however indifferent and dishonest, is praised.
Well, I was at the Tory conference in Birmingham, and I endured Mr Cameron’s allegedly superb speech – and what went before it – and I thought I might let you know what was really going on.
I know a lot of you won’t like it. You harbour the illusion that a Cameron government will be significantly different from a Brown or Blair government. But you will like it even less when you find out that Mr Cameron, who plans to be elected as New Labour, will govern as New Labour did, too. Then where will you turn for help?
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Hitchens is very believable, and his account makes sense. The media plays a huge part in deciding who wins elections. They are the "opinion makers".
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