Blair Gets Right (Well.. a bit right at least)

When he says the press has to change the way that it acts and behaves with regard to politics, making their reporting more practical and less personal Blair had a valid point. However, the big omission in his speech was the failure to acknowledge his own role in this. His endeavours to manipulate the media and to use his own team to participate in whispering campaigns against those that had fallen out of failure with Number 10 (i.e. Mo Mowlem) encouraged and endorsed media campaigns against individuals rather than policies.