The scuffle between Janice Turner and Rory Stewart over the former's Times profile of the latter is a perfect example of how interviews are traps and interviewees are vain.
Nice one, Mic. It’s interesting how Stewart gripes about the framing and the artificial construct, when his entire media personality is one great artificial construct.
Good analysis. Newspaper interviews/profiles are rarely about fairness but at least Turner, for a Murdoch journalist, seems to have done a thorough job. Stewart is that rare oddity, a likeable Tory, and I recall he was voted best performer in that weird TV leadership debate when BoJo conned his way to the top. For me he deserves a morsel of credit for being the first Prisons Minister who took that
nightmare job at least half seriously. He was, of course, soon seen off by the pin-stripe thugs of the Tory right.
Hmmm. I’m kinda torn in this. I enjoyed their exchange around this topic on TRIP, assuming that Rory was being over sensitive and naive. Then I read the Times piece and thought...yeah...too thin skinned.
I do admire his incisiveness on all things east of Istanbul and while not the PR jousting equal of Campbell, he does present as a good foil. He’s also polite - most of the time - and I sense that’s what his fans (yes I’m one despite being a paid up Labour Party member) admire the most as an antidote to the political bullshit and bile we have become used to parlaying in such illustrious organs as the Daily Fail and Torygraph.
Nevertheless, Campbell got it right when he concluded that the best was the punchline plug for the upcoming book (I.E. job done so quit moaning). Speaking of which I wonder how many remember Nick du Bois Confessions of a Recovering MP?
Nice one, Mic. It’s interesting how Stewart gripes about the framing and the artificial construct, when his entire media personality is one great artificial construct.
That's definitely my feeling.
Good analysis. Newspaper interviews/profiles are rarely about fairness but at least Turner, for a Murdoch journalist, seems to have done a thorough job. Stewart is that rare oddity, a likeable Tory, and I recall he was voted best performer in that weird TV leadership debate when BoJo conned his way to the top. For me he deserves a morsel of credit for being the first Prisons Minister who took that
nightmare job at least half seriously. He was, of course, soon seen off by the pin-stripe thugs of the Tory right.
Hmmm. I’m kinda torn in this. I enjoyed their exchange around this topic on TRIP, assuming that Rory was being over sensitive and naive. Then I read the Times piece and thought...yeah...too thin skinned.
I do admire his incisiveness on all things east of Istanbul and while not the PR jousting equal of Campbell, he does present as a good foil. He’s also polite - most of the time - and I sense that’s what his fans (yes I’m one despite being a paid up Labour Party member) admire the most as an antidote to the political bullshit and bile we have become used to parlaying in such illustrious organs as the Daily Fail and Torygraph.
Nevertheless, Campbell got it right when he concluded that the best was the punchline plug for the upcoming book (I.E. job done so quit moaning). Speaking of which I wonder how many remember Nick du Bois Confessions of a Recovering MP?