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Comrades,
The Tories have shown their strategy – spin. They are skewing data and with the General Election approaching it’s all to play for. Will we let the Tories fool people into voting for them, or will we try to stop them?
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2 Responses to “It’s spin season: a note from the Editor”
JD
The Tories and their media pals will no doubt try to fool people into following them again. But even more this time than last, social media has outflanked them and their Stone Age (by comparison) news techniques.
Consider the recent hilarious Dave-on-the-phone ridicule. Would a daily paper (of whatever political stripe) have conceived and printed that? I don’t think so.
A hashtag has become more powerful than a front-page splash and those making the weather on these platforms are, in the main, left-thinking and progressive people. In a recent Sun editorial (I read my dad’s copy, merely as an exercise to make me feel better about myself) they complained about the fact that ‘their’ people get an ‘unfair’ crack of the whip on Twitter. Rubbish of course. They deserve every crack they get.
The Conservatives and their scummy pals are ripe for ridicule because they’re so static and rigid and stuck in the past that they didn’t embrace web-based change until it was too late. And their pathetic attempts to catch up (again seen with Dopey Dave’s recent difficulties as well as the ‘LOL’ Rebekah Brooks fiasco) have been pointed out mercilessly and laughed at by the rest of us. And boy do the Tories hate being laughed at.
It’s up to Labour to use this medium to their advantage in the run-up to the election. And they’ll have plenty of help. This could also be useful in encouraging younger people to vote and to get involved with politics.
Sparky
Because, of course, the Left never indulges in spin, misinformation or skewing facts. I mean, the previous Labour government was known for never doing any of that.