Einar Thorsen

Professor of Journalism and Communication at Bournemouth University

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#wmf: Jon Snow slams leaders’ debates in ‘golden age’ for journalists

21 May, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

    Jon Snow speaking at the Westminster Media Forum event, 'The Future of News Media':

    "Three debates and the lifeblood was drained from the rest of the campaign. You used to have spontaneous press conferences (…) but [in 2010] in terms of actually putting out their stalls in which policies are aired in a structured way over three weeks, there was none of it. There were three men everywhere you went.

    […]

    The tabloids had a dreadful election because there was nothing to report. All there was to report was the TV debates, they had to hook into TV (…) When the viewer had thought that somebody had won they were then told by the media, the tabloids, they were wrong."

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