Peter Jay - Revision history

Tom Mills: /* 1979–2009 */

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1979–2009

Tom Mills at 23:38, 8 November 2011

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added category Old Wykehamists

David: /* Affiliations */

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Affiliations

David: /* Affiliations */

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Affiliations

Tom Mills: /* 1967–1977: Media, Monetarism and the ‘Mission to Explain’ */

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1967–1977: Media, Monetarism and the ‘Mission to Explain’

Tom Mills: /* 1979–2009 */

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1979–2009

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1979–2009

Tom Mills: /* 1979–2009 */ Peacock testimony

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1979–2009: Peacock testimony

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 ==1979–2009==
-In 1979 Jay joined the [[Economist Group]] as a consultant and from 1979 to 1983 was director of the [[Economist Intelligence Unit]], the business intelligence firm affiliation with ''[[The Economist]]'' magazine. <ref>''Who's Who 2009'', A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2008 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U21879 ‘JAY, Hon. Peter’], [accessed 16 Oct 2009]</ref> From 1979 to 1980 he was also appointed a Visiting Scholar at the right-wing US think-tank the [[Brookings Institution]]. <ref>Ibid.</ref>
+In 1979 Jay joined the [[Economist Group]] as a consultant and from 1979 to 1983 was director of the [[Economist Intelligence Unit]], the business intelligence firm affiliation with ''[[The Economist]]'' magazine. <ref>''Who's Who 2009'', A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2008 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U21879 ‘JAY, Hon. Peter’], [accessed 16 Oct 2009]</ref> From 1979 to 1980 he was also appointed a Visiting Scholar at the US think-tank the [[Brookings Institution]]. <ref>Ibid.</ref>
 In 1980 Jay presented a series of studio discussions to accompany the broadcast of [[Milton Friedman|Milton Friedman’s]] neoliberal polemic ''[[Free to Choose]]''. The 10-part television documentary was produced by the British company [[Video Arts Television]] after [[Milton Friedman|Friedman]] and his collaborator [[Bob Chitester]] had failed to find a production team in the US considered sufficiently sympathetic to their philosophy. <ref>Rose D. Friedman, ''[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6l0_vQ1zpI8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false Two Lucky People: Memoirs]'' (University of Chicago Press, 1999) pp.475-6</ref> The [[BBC]] bought the rights to six of the programmes. <ref>Rose D. Friedman, ''[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6l0_vQ1zpI8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false Two Lucky People: Memoirs]'' (University of Chicago Press, 1999) p.499</ref> Five were broadcast with studio discussions with [[Milton Friedman]] hosted by Jay. <ref>According to the BBC Motion Gallery the title of each segment and the date of its broadcast were as follows: ''Free to Choose:1:Power of Markets'' (16 February 1980); ''Free to Choose:2: The Tyranny of Control'' (23 February 1980); ''Free to Choose:3:Anatomy of Crisis'' (1 March 1980); ''Free to Choose:4: Created Equal'' (8 March 1980); ''Free to Choose:5: Who Protects the Consumer?'' (15 March 1980); ''Free to Choose:6: How to Cure Inflation'' (22 March 1980). All but ''Power of Markets'', were broadcast with discussions hosted by Jay</ref>

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 In 2003 he became a Director (non-executive) of the Bank of England. <ref>''Who's Who 2009'', A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2008 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U21879 ‘JAY, Hon. Peter’], [accessed 16 Oct 2009]</ref>
-In June 2009 the ''Daily Mail'' reported that Jay was one of two members standing for the Chair of the [[Garrick Club]], the exclusive London private members club which he had been invited to joined by [[William Rees-Mogg]] 33 years earlier. <Ref>Richard Kay, '[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1191692/The-second-coming-Peter-Jay.html The second coming of Peter Jay]', ''Daily Mail'', 9 June 2009; p.35</ref> However, Jay was not elected, and lost to his only rival Jonathan Acton Davis QC. <Ref>Fiona Murray, Secretary to the Secretary, email to Tom Mills, 29 January 2010 17:32</ref>
+In June 2009 the ''Daily Mail'' reported that Jay was one of two members standing for the Chair of the [[Garrick Club]], the exclusive London private members club which he had been invited to join by [[William Rees-Mogg]] 33 years earlier. <Ref>Richard Kay, '[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1191692/The-second-coming-Peter-Jay.html The second coming of Peter Jay]', ''Daily Mail'', 9 June 2009; p.35</ref> However, Jay was not elected, and lost to his only rival Jonathan Acton Davis QC. <Ref>Fiona Murray, Secretary to the Secretary, email to Tom Mills, 29 January 2010 17:32</ref>
 ==Affiliations==

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 ==Affiliations==
-[[Garrick Club]] <ref>''Debrett's People of Today'' (Debrett's Peerage Ltd, January 2009) [Accessed via KnowUK on 15 October 2009]</ref> | [[Open Europe]] |
+[[Garrick Club]] <ref>''Debrett's People of Today'' (Debrett's Peerage Ltd, January 2009) [Accessed via KnowUK on 15 October 2009]</ref> | [[Open Europe]] 'supporter'<ref>Open Europe 2005-2007[http://www.openeurope.org.uk/about-us/supporters.aspx Supporters] Accessed 22 Aug 2007</ref> |
 ==Notes==

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 ==Affiliations==
-[[Garrick Club]] <ref>''Debrett's People of Today'' (Debrett's Peerage Ltd, January 2009) [Accessed via KnowUK on 15 October 2009]</ref>
+[[Garrick Club]] <ref>''Debrett's People of Today'' (Debrett's Peerage Ltd, January 2009) [Accessed via KnowUK on 15 October 2009]</ref> | [[Open Europe]] |
 ==Notes==

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 An oft-repeated anecdote from Jay's period at ''[[The Times]]'' is an incident when a sub-editor said he found one of his articles difficult to follow. Jay replied: 'I only wrote this piece for three people – the editor of ''[[The Times]]'', the Governor of the Bank of England, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.' <ref>quoted e.g. in Sebastian Shakespeare, '[http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2008/12/women-oddie-jay-gay-atheist Shakespeare’s Globe]', ''New Statesman'', 11 December 2008</ref>
-During this period at ''[[The Times]]'', Jay also became involved in television. From 1972 to 1977 he was a presenter on LWT’s high brow current affairs programme ''Weekend World'' which was created by Jay’s friend, the future [[BBC]] Director-General, [[John Birt]]. Whilst at LWT, Jay and [[John Birt|Birt]] developed a critique of television news and current affairs which appeared in a series of editorials printed in ''[[The Times]]'' in 1975/6. They argued that television had a ‘bias against understanding’ and that television producers should recruit journalists with special expertise and develop a more analytical style. What became known as the ‘[[Mission to Explain]]’ formed the intellectual rationale for a series of changes to BBC editorial practises in News and Current Affairs under [[John Birt]]. In 1977 after the [[Annan Committee]] criticised BBC News and Current Affairs, the [[BBC]] Chairman [[Michael Swann]] invited Jay and [[John Birt|Birt]] to the [[BBC]] to give him their views on broadcasting. According to a member of the BBC management team quoted in ''The Battle for the BBC'': 'The governors came quite close to the proposition that maybe we should bring these lads in and have them do a number on news and current affairs'. In the event the Director-General [[Charles Curran]] vetoed this suggestion but a paper was distributed to all the Governors detailing Jay and [[John Birt|Birt's]] theory. <ref>Steven Barnett & Andrew Curry, ''The Battle for the BBC: A British Broadcasting Conspiracy?'' (London: Aurum Press, 1994) p.79</ref>
+During this period at ''[[The Times]]'', Jay also became involved in television. From 1972 to 1977 he was a presenter on LWT’s high brow current affairs programme ''[[Weekend World]]'' which was created by Jay’s friend, the future [[BBC]] Director-General, [[John Birt]]. Whilst at [[LWT]], Jay and [[John Birt|Birt]] developed a critique of television news and current affairs which appeared in a series of editorials printed in ''[[The Times]]'' in 1975/6. They argued that television had a ‘bias against understanding’ and that television producers should recruit journalists with special expertise and develop a more analytical style. What became known as the ‘[[mission to explain]]’ formed the intellectual rationale for a series of changes to BBC editorial practises in News and Current Affairs under [[John Birt]]. In 1977 after the [[Annan Committee]] criticised BBC News and Current Affairs, the [[BBC]] Chairman [[Michael Swann]] invited Jay and [[John Birt|Birt]] to the [[BBC]] to give him their views on broadcasting. According to a member of the BBC management team quoted in ''The Battle for the BBC'': 'The governors came quite close to the proposition that maybe we should bring these lads in and have them do a number on news and current affairs'. In the event the Director-General [[Charles Curran]] vetoed this suggestion but a paper was distributed to all the Governors detailing Jay and [[John Birt|Birt's]] theory. <ref>Steven Barnett & Andrew Curry, ''The Battle for the BBC: A British Broadcasting Conspiracy?'' (London: Aurum Press, 1994) p.79</ref>
 During the 1970s Jay also fronted an ITV series called ''The Jay Interview''. The programme ran for two series, each consisting of six hour long episodes broadcast late on Sunday evenings. The first series, on which [[John Birt]] worked as Executive Producer, was broadcast in 1975 and consisted of interviews with liberal intellectuals like the philosopher [[Isaiah Berlin]], the Keynesian economist [[James Meade]] and the moral philosopher [[Bernard Williams]]. <ref>see BFI Film & TV Database, [http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/34655 The JAY INTERVIEW], [Accessed 16 October 2009]</ref> The second series, broadcast in 1976 and produced by the then left wing journalist [[John Lloyd]], consciously embraced more marginal figures. It was entitled ‘Alternatives to Liberal Democracy’ and included an interview with the anarchist intellectual [[Noam Chomsky]] and the Marxist historian [[Eric Hobsbawm]]. <ref>Ibid.</ref>

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 <blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">Jay was not on the committee, but had strong thought of his own on the future of television. He and [[Samuel Brittan|Brittan]] were to spend long sessions together at Jay’s Ealing home, effectively forming their own private committee, and wildly exceeding Peacock’s original brief. <ref>Chris Horrie and Steve Clarke, ''Fuzzy Monsters – Fear and Loathing at the BBC'' (London: William Heinemann, 1994) p.37</ref></blockquote>
-Jay also gave evidence to the Commission. According to the then Director-Generl Alisdair Milne, Jay was
+Jay also gave evidence to the Commission. According to the then Director-General Alisdair Milne, Jay was
 <blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">the only individual invited to speak for himself, the Peacock guru. Peter set forth, at this usual machine-gun rate of delivery, his picture of the new world of electronic publishing, where programmes would pour out of the fibre-optic cables in the same way that books had poured off the presses in the past. [[Sam Brittan]] smiled like a Cheshire cat. <ref>Alisdair Milne, DG: The Memoirs of a British Broadcaster (Hodder and Stoughton, 1989) p.224</ref></blockquote>

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	<blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">Jay was not on the committee, but had strong thought of his own on the future of television. He and [[Samuel Brittan\|Brittan]] were to spend long sessions together at Jay’s Ealing home, effectively forming their own private committee, and wildly exceeding Peacock’s original brief. <ref>Chris Horrie and Steve Clarke, ''Fuzzy Monsters – Fear and Loathing at the BBC'' (London: William Heinemann, 1994) p.37</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">Jay was not on the committee, but had strong thought of his own on the future of television. He and [[Samuel Brittan\|Brittan]] were to spend long sessions together at Jay’s Ealing home, effectively forming their own private committee, and wildly exceeding Peacock’s original brief. <ref>Chris Horrie and Steve Clarke, ''Fuzzy Monsters – Fear and Loathing at the BBC'' (London: William Heinemann, 1994) p.37</ref></blockquote>
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		+	Jay also gave evidence to the Commission. According to the then Director-Generl Alisdair Milne, Jay was
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		+	<blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">the only individual invited to speak for himself, the Peacock guru. Peter set forth, at this usual machine-gun rate of delivery, his picture of the new world of electronic publishing, where programmes would pour out of the fibre-optic cables in the same way that books had poured off the presses in the past. [[Sam Brittan]] smiled like a Cheshire cat. <ref>Alisdair Milne, DG: The Memoirs of a British Broadcaster (Hodder and Stoughton, 1989) p.224</ref></blockquote>

	After the Committee delivered its report in 1986, [[Samuel Brittan\|Brittan]] even suggested Jay as one of two possible future chairmen of the [[BBC]]. <ref>Peter Fiddick, 'The case for strong governors', ''Guardian'', 9 September 1986. [[Samuel Brittan\|Brittan's]] other suggestion was the ITV presenter Alastair Burnet</ref>		After the Committee delivered its report in 1986, [[Samuel Brittan\|Brittan]] even suggested Jay as one of two possible future chairmen of the [[BBC]]. <ref>Peter Fiddick, 'The case for strong governors', ''Guardian'', 9 September 1986. [[Samuel Brittan\|Brittan's]] other suggestion was the ITV presenter Alastair Burnet</ref>

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-<blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">''“I am absolutely not indifferent to money. I love money and I'm very keen to have money.”'' – Peter Jay <ref> ‘[http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2000/jun/18/life1.lifemagazine6 Jay talking]’, ''Observer'', 18 June 2000</ref></blockquote>
+<CENTER>''“I am absolutely not indifferent to money. I love money and I'm very keen to have money.”'' – Peter Jay <ref> ‘[http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2000/jun/18/life1.lifemagazine6 Jay talking]’, ''Observer'', 18 June 2000</ref></CENTER>
 [[Image:Peter Jay on the Money Programme.jpg|thumb|280px|right|Peter Jay on the ''Money Programme''.]]
 '''Peter Jay''' (born 7 February 1937) is a British journalist who was an early advocate for neoliberal economics and was particularly influential in this regard during the 1970s. Along with his friend [[John Birt]] (the former Director-General of the [[BBC]]) Jay is also well known as an outspoken advocate of high brow analytical journalism – as apposed to the adversarial style (at least theoretically) favoured by current affairs journalists.