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Thursday, 24 May, 2001, 19:25 GMT 20:25 UK
The Campaign Today with Nick Robinson
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It's Thursday of the third week. Join Nick as he files his copy throughout the day.
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![]() Sent: 10.50am Tony Blair's decided to make an issue of his frustration with the media coverage of the election. He says we're ignoring the real election issues, by which he means investment in public services versus cuts. An advisor of his tells me that TV news should involve "the three Ss":
Blair's complaint is that there's much too much of the last S, and not nearly enough of the first two. His strategists accept however that they threw away most of their best news stories in the run-up to this election - launching policy ideas to fill the vacuum produced when the election was postponed. So I'm told the prime minister told them last night: "Go get some stories."
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What all politicians want us to do is to give them the deniable good news story. In other words, we say Gordon Brown's got no plans to put up this or that tax. But no quote exists, no on the record statement, so that if he does have to put up the tax, he can deny ever promising that he wouldn't.
If politicians want to reassure the public, they've got lips to reassure them. But as George Bush found, reading lips can be awful dangerous.
Kennedy's quiz show appearances paid off when he responded by saying: "There are plenty of people it seems who still believe that."
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