Spin doctoring
In most accounts of recent Labour success in media management the role of 'media spin' and, in particular, Tony Blair's formidable 'spin doctor' Alastair Campbell are highlighted. Several authors (ones 1999; Fairclough 2000) have discussed the media management surrounding the government's welfare 'reforms' as a case study which illustrates "New Labour's management of news and "media spin'" (Fairclough 2000: Early in their tenures Labour opted to launch a welfare roadshow" in a bid to attempt to control the news agenda with Tony Blair going "on the road' to put his case for welfare reform to the people of Britain. Blair's first speech was in Dudley, and the day before this speech Alastair Campbell gave private briefings to the media in which he emphasised, with a battery of facts and figures, the costs to the nation, of benefit fraud. The next day the official launch of the welfare roadshow two national newspapers, The Times and the Mirror, carried articles 'written' by Tony Blair which were virtually indistinguishable from the briefing Campbell had given the day before That evening, in Dudley, Blair's speech again reinforced the message, with virtually the same language, that he was determined to do something about benefit fraud. Fairclough 2000: 13) notes that:
The risk of unpredictable and uncontrollable media uptake of the speech is minimised by trailing the speech in a way which presents it in the way the Government wants it to be seen -which puts a particular 'spin' on it.
This was, of course, only the beginning of the welfare reform process which proceeded through a consultation" stage and eventually to a Bill presented to the Westminster parliament. Fairelough (2000: 129) argues that the whole process, from initial campaign, through the consultative stage, to the presentation of the Bill to parliament, was 'largely managed through managerial and promotional means rather than democratically through dialogue". Part of the art of "spin" according to Fairclough (2000: 131), is calculating what additional emphases and foregrounding newspapers…will predictably add, which may be an effective way for the Government to convey implicitly messages it may not wish to convey explicitly'. In the case of the welfare reform legislation, issues surrounding benefit fraud were only a small part of the Bill but there was a constant stream of messages about how Tony Blair would "get tough' on benefit fraud. This allowed politically conservative newspapers like the Daily Mail to use headlines like "Welfare: The Crackdown Fairclough (2000: 131) suggests that the Daily Mail report effects certain transformations which significantly and (from a press officer's perspective) predictably "tougher" message than Blair's', but the key point is that this 'message will reassure the Daily Mail s largely Tory readership.
Spin doctoring In most accounts of recent Labour success in media management the role of 'media spin' and, in particular, Tony Blair's formidable 'spin doctor' Alastair Campbell are highlighted. Several authors (ones 1999; Fairclough 2000) have discussed the media management surrounding the government's welfare 'reforms' as a case study which illustrates "New Labour's management of news and "media spin'" (Fairclough 2000: Early in their tenures Labour opted to launch a welfare roadshow" in a bid to attempt to control the news agenda with Tony Blair going "on the road' to put his case for welfare reform to the people of Britain. Blair's first speech was in Dudley, and the day before this speech Alastair Campbell gave private briefings to the media in which he emphasised, with a battery of facts and figures, the costs to the nation, of benefit fraud. The next day the official launch of the welfare roadshow two national newspapers, The Times and the Mirror, carried articles 'written' by Tony Blair which were virtually indistinguishable from the briefing Campbell had given the day before That evening, in Dudley, Blair's speech again reinforced the message, with virtually the same language, that he was determined to do something about benefit fraud. Fairclough 2000: 13) notes that: The risk of unpredictable and uncontrollable media uptake of the speech is minimised by trailing the speech in a way which presents it in the way the Government wants it to be seen -which puts a particular 'spin' on it.This was, of course, only the beginning of the welfare reform process which proceeded through a consultation" stage and eventually to a Bill presented to the Westminster parliament. Fairelough (2000: 129) argues that the whole process, from initial campaign, through the consultative stage, to the presentation of the Bill to parliament, was 'largely managed through managerial and promotional means rather than democratically through dialogue". Part of the art of "spin" according to Fairclough (2000: 131), is calculating what additional emphases and foregrounding newspapers…will predictably add, which may be an effective way for the Government to convey implicitly messages it may not wish to convey explicitly'. In the case of the welfare reform legislation, issues surrounding benefit fraud were only a small part of the Bill but there was a constant stream of messages about how Tony Blair would "get tough' on benefit fraud. This allowed politically conservative newspapers like the Daily Mail to use headlines like "Welfare: The Crackdown Fairclough (2000: 131) suggests that the Daily Mail report effects certain transformations which significantly and (from a press officer's perspective) predictably "tougher" message than Blair's', but the key point is that this 'message will reassure the Daily Mail s largely Tory readership.
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