The feral beast, Martin Moore

jon.bright — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:52:12 +0000

"We are all being dragged down by the way media and public life interact" Tony Blair said before stepping down last summer. "Talk to senior people in virtually any walk of life today... and they will tell you the same. People don't speak about it because, in the main, they are afraid to."

These are serious charges, but are they true? Unfortunately, since they were made by a Prime Minister famed for manipulating the media, they have not yet been properly addressed.

For this reason the Media Standards Trust and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism are organising a series of special debates - the first of which was held at the end of last year - about the media and public life.

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