Media Training update w/c 24th November

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Good morning, it’s Monday 24th November. Budget week.

Introverts and Extroverts On Air: 
And why introverts might actually make better interviewees:

The Week Ahead:

Monday: MPs grill Samir Shah and Michael Prescott on the work of the BBC

Peter Kyle and Kemi Badenoch at CBI annual conference


Tuesday: High Court holds full judicial review in challenge to Palestine Action proscription


Wednesday: Rachel Reeves delivers the Autumn Budget


Thursday: Quarterly and long-term migration statistics

Pope Leo begins visit to Turkey

Friday: Black Friday


Saturday: Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s Your Party holds inaugural conference

International Day for Palestine march in London

Right-wing Publishing Powerhouse:

The owner of the Daily Mail is set to buy the Telegraph, according to reports over the weekend.

The deal is likely to trigger an investigation by the media regulator Ofcom and the Competition and Markets Authority.

“Quiet Piggy”

The response from the leader of the free world to a female reporter asking a perfectly reasonable question on Air Force One. Welcome back to Trump’s America, part 4,657.

We should be used to his misogyny, his bullying, his downright idiocy, right?

Here’s Margaret Sullivan in The Guardian:

“But, for me, “quiet, piggy” somehow breaks through. It should be a bridge too far, not business as usual.Wouldn’t it have been something to see the entire press corps shout back at Trump, in defense of their colleague? Wouldn’t it have been something to see them walk away from the gaggle?”


Why didn’t they?

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“Saying The Unsayable” 


This email from reader Dennis in response to the Mark Borkowski article on political rhetoric quoted in last week’s newsletter is bang on the money:

“Regarding the “beige dialect”, I can’t make the definition of deliberately sterile and inoffensive communication tally with the Home Secretary’s inflammatory announcements about immigration law. On both sides of the Atlantic, politicians seem to be using controversy to mobilise angry voters, rather than trying to avoid offence. 


After what had preceded it, I’d hoped that the new government would bring less offensive, more sensible, and perhaps even more “beige” politics. Saying what used to be unsayable isn’t always a good thing.” 

Footnotes: 


On this day: Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of murdering President Kennedy, was himself shot dead in a Dallas police station on this day in 1963.

Mutt Photo:

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