Talk:John Kampfner

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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.

Paulo

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.

  1. Roy Greenslade, Would you like your news spun or opinionated?, Telegraph, 22 November 2005.
  2. Document No longer Accessible, (Accessed 1 Sept 2007)
  3. Tom Bower, 'Houdini' Robinson's great escape, Telegraph, 3 July 2001.