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'''''Weekend World''''' was a British television political series, made by [[London Weekend Television]] (LWT) and broadcast from 1972 to 1988.
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==''Weekend World'' journalism==
 
[[John Lloyd]] on ''Weekend World'':
 
[[John Lloyd]] on ''Weekend World'':
  
<blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">''Weekend World'' always made it explicit that politicians, especially cabinet ministers, faced on most issues a range of difficult and constructed choices. It sought to make sense of the choices; its interviews were aimed at clarifying the view that the politician or public figure took of these choices. The presenters - [Peter] [[Peter Jay|Jay]], then the former MPs [[Brian Walden]] (Labour) and [[Matthew Parris]] (Conservative) - stressed that politicians had larger responsibilities than they did because politicians were elected, and had taken on a greater or lesser range of duties as part of the democratic and governing process. Power was held to account, but explicitly underpinned because it was elective power. Television was a secondary function of democracy. <ref>John Lloyd, '[http://www.newstatesman.com/200211110037 The interview as humiliation. Jeremy Paxman is the champion of an insidious form of journalism. John Lloyd on why his dispute with John Birt is symptomatic of a wider crisis in our political culture]', New Statesman, 11 November 2002</ref></blockquote>
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<blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">''Weekend World'' always made it explicit that politicians, especially cabinet ministers, faced on most issues a range of difficult and constructed choices. It sought to make sense of the choices; its interviews were aimed at clarifying the view that the politician or public figure took of these choices. The presenters - [Peter] [[Peter Jay|Jay]], then the former MPs [[Brian Walden]] (Labour) and [[Matthew Parris]] (Conservative) - stressed that politicians had larger responsibilities than they did because politicians were elected, and had taken on a greater or lesser range of duties as part of the democratic and governing process. <ref>John Lloyd, '[http://www.newstatesman.com/200211110037 The interview as humiliation. Jeremy Paxman is the champion of an insidious form of journalism. John Lloyd on why his dispute with John Birt is symptomatic of a wider crisis in our political culture]', ''New Statesman'', 11 November 2002</ref></blockquote>
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==''Weekend World'' alumni==
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[[David Aaronovitch]] | [[John Birt]] | [[Peter Jay]] | [[John Lloyd]] | [[Peter Mandelson]] | [[Matthew Parris]] | [[Brian Walden]] | [[Michael Wills]]
  
 
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Latest revision as of 16:06, 14 December 2009

Weekend World was a British television political series, made by London Weekend Television (LWT) and broadcast from 1972 to 1988.

Weekend World journalism

John Lloyd on Weekend World:

Weekend World always made it explicit that politicians, especially cabinet ministers, faced on most issues a range of difficult and constructed choices. It sought to make sense of the choices; its interviews were aimed at clarifying the view that the politician or public figure took of these choices. The presenters - [Peter] Jay, then the former MPs Brian Walden (Labour) and Matthew Parris (Conservative) - stressed that politicians had larger responsibilities than they did because politicians were elected, and had taken on a greater or lesser range of duties as part of the democratic and governing process. [1]

Weekend World alumni

David Aaronovitch | John Birt | Peter Jay | John Lloyd | Peter Mandelson | Matthew Parris | Brian Walden | Michael Wills

Notes