Talk:John Kampfner
The article needs to be rewritten in toto... it is basically a poorly written jab at Kampfner... not all well documented. Even the first few paragraph lack cohesion or logic...
I hope that is OK to do a major reshuffle and axing of silly material.
yes, it's ok. but let's all be careful about criticising each others work. This page certainly needed work and you have contributed to that. I think we need to try and adopt an approach which encourages people to contributs and where we are all respectful of each others contributions.
OK?
--David 15:14, 2 September 2007 (BST)
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Much of his work for Editorial Intelligence has been to tell us how great other people in Editorial Intelligence are. [1]
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One decorative use of this – was the Foreign Policy Centre (FPC), which has close ties to the intelligence services, is funded by mercenary companies (working in Iraq) and is largely pro-war and pro-government. Kampfner joined with John Lloyd and Stephen Twigg to reinforce the FPC's line at the Fabian Society's "Britishness" Conference. [2]
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Note that the New Statesman was a former Hobsbawm Macaulay Communications client [3] The NS has described Editorial Intelligence as a small, self-referential clique comprised of press, TV, public relations, publishing and politics clones.
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This came after a bit of a falling out over Lloyd's promotion of the wholesale adoption of neo-conservatism.[4] Part of the gymnastics of those mysterious commentators who claim to be left-wing but hold no discernible left-wing views are that after their somersaults they must land on the side of whoever holds the reins of power. [5]
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Although he has written on the news management of the Iraq war [6] by the US and UK, in reviews Kampfner uncritically promotes both the FPC and the Centre for European Reform (CER) – both run by Mark Leonard and both of which are, amongst other things, engaged in "public diplomacy". [7] The CER's Charles Grant returns the reviewing favours by praising Kampfner in Prospect magazine. Here we read some of the mildest rebukes of Blair and indeed Mr. Bush to be committed to paper:
- George Bush often displays a similarly Manichean worldview, which may be why the two men get on as well as they do. Both Bush and Blair are instinctive politicians who attach great importance to personal relationships. [8]
Kampfner and Leonard trade favours by reviewing each others' books in the NS or the CER respectively. [9] You can even catch Leonard and Kampfner doing the rounds at Jewish Book Week [10]
- ↑ Roy Greenslade, Would you like your news spun or opinionated?, Telegraph, 22 November 2005.
- ↑ Document No longer Accessible, (Accessed 1 Sept 2007)
- ↑ Tom Bower, 'Houdini' Robinson's great escape, Telegraph, 3 July 2001.
- ↑ Oliver Kamm, John Lloyd on "The Case for Freedom", Blog, 8 December 2005.
- ↑ The case for freedom For a few on the left, Tony Blair's determination to take a stand against tyranny has been a source of admiration rather than despair. John Lloyd explains why, when it comes to foreign policy, he is no longer ashamed to be called a Neoconservative, New Statesman, Published 12 December 2005
- ↑ John Kampfner, The Disgrace of the BBC, Weekly Standard, 25 August 2003
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- ↑ Charles Grant, Blair's five wars, Prospect, October 2003. (Accessed: 1 September 2007)
- ↑ John Kampfner, Why Europe will Run the 21st Century, CER reprint, 28 February 2005.
- ↑ Jewish Book Week: 2006: List of events and speakers
