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I remember the one about the Sunday Times story that blew up, but didn't realise they have actually been doing this about quite a few stories, even from regional papers.
That seems a reasonable summary. I've seen all of these played out in real time and he's right - there's been a concerted PR effort to try to discredit a number of respectable journalists using falsehoods. It's highly unprofessional and hints to some serious emotional instability behind the scenes somewhere - I'm tempted to think that Cummings is behind a lot of this given his position, but that may be a lazy conclusion as I've no evidence.
They seem to be permanently stuck in protest-type campaign mode.
Judging by both the Sunday Times story and Peter Forster's piece in the FT on ventilators then it is those that have got a bit too close to the bone that really inspire these angsty replies. This remains a government obsessed with spin and positioning rather more than doing anything.
In honour of the Streisland effect, here's Jennifer Williams' story on homelessness that was one of them:
Let’s break this down. 1. We didn’t say you were winding up resource for rough sleeping. Grow up. 2. Nobody accused you of reneging on anything because you didn’t promise anything to renege on. 3. 90% of rough sleepers housed under ‘everyone in’ have not been housed here. https://t.co/UPgCLqZQgB
— Jennifer Williams (@JenWilliamsMEN) May 15, 2020
Yday, MHCLG used taxpayers' money to write this. Funnily enough, it fails to mention that I put the story to them well in advance. Then received no reply. I chased them 24 hours later.
And curiously, their response to me was completely different to what was in their blog below. https://t.co/TzIaBlegvY
Yes, I've seen a few questions raised re: unusual government responses but good to have these incidences all in one place.
I suppose the question is: what was normal practice before? And the follow-up: is this unique to a major crisis like Coronavirus or signifying a more permanent shift?
But considering we've now got a government that is more or less a collection of political gamers, nudgers, manipulators and often liars then we should definitely, definitely Stay Alert to them.
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I did not realise there had been loads of those Government debunking blogs on 10:49 - May 19 with 998 views
I did not realise there had been loads of those Government debunking blogs on 10:37 - May 19 by Swansea_Blue
That seems a reasonable summary. I've seen all of these played out in real time and he's right - there's been a concerted PR effort to try to discredit a number of respectable journalists using falsehoods. It's highly unprofessional and hints to some serious emotional instability behind the scenes somewhere - I'm tempted to think that Cummings is behind a lot of this given his position, but that may be a lazy conclusion as I've no evidence.
They seem to be permanently stuck in protest-type campaign mode.
Is this the government that is lead by someone that wanted a journalist beaten up?
Hmmm, I have a suspicion of where some emotional instability may originate.
Trickle down politics?
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I did not realise there had been loads of those Government debunking blogs on 11:07 - May 19 with 971 views
I did not realise there had been loads of those Government debunking blogs on 11:07 - May 19 by monytowbray
But Corbyn.
to think all the stick you took, when you started to criticise this shower in control of government. i think you were told to" grow up ffs" by one poster. those posters have been fairly quiet of late on that subject
forensic experts say footers and spruces fingerprints were not found at the scene after the weekends rows
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I did not realise there had been loads of those Government debunking blogs on 13:00 - May 19 with 890 views
I did not realise there had been loads of those Government debunking blogs on 11:45 - May 19 by jaykay
to think all the stick you took, when you started to criticise this shower in control of government. i think you were told to" grow up ffs" by one poster. those posters have been fairly quiet of late on that subject
I think one of the interesting things that has happened recently, is that people are diverging from the UK Government approach, e.g. wanting lockdown to continue longer.
I don’t really see how expressing a view on this is much different to expressing a view on when the lockdown was initially put in place.
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I did not realise there had been loads of those Government debunking blogs on 13:04 - May 19 with 876 views
For the sake of democracy in this country, it's really critical that they lose the next election - if the strategy is successful again, then we're really careering down the the slippery slope to somewhere pretty awful.
I did not realise there had been loads of those Government debunking blogs on 10:44 - May 19 by Darth_Koont
Yes, I've seen a few questions raised re: unusual government responses but good to have these incidences all in one place.
I suppose the question is: what was normal practice before? And the follow-up: is this unique to a major crisis like Coronavirus or signifying a more permanent shift?
But considering we've now got a government that is more or less a collection of political gamers, nudgers, manipulators and often liars then we should definitely, definitely Stay Alert to them.
The strategy of a government spreading misinformation to discredit critical media sources is fairly novel in this country. There is certainly precedent in other countries, though.
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I did not realise there had been loads of those Government debunking blogs on 13:13 - May 19 with 857 views
I did not realise there had been loads of those Government debunking blogs on 13:07 - May 19 by gordon
The strategy of a government spreading misinformation to discredit critical media sources is fairly novel in this country. There is certainly precedent in other countries, though.
Getting government departments to do it as a way to dismiss criticism and deflect from the politicians having to answer is novel, I agree.
But to be fair, they've been spreading misleading stuff and managing the message via client journalism for the last few years, and certainly since Johnson got in.
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