CANNOT WAIT FOR THE BOOK

Thanks to Martin Stabe for directing me to an interview with Alastair Campbell on Public Service Radio-here are some snippets


Press was there pure and simply to get the party message,they reacted bdly when they realised they could not set the agenda.

One of the reasons he left was to try and divert some of the poison that had been created around the Blair government

The media has a "Culture of negativity"

He denies he created spin,it has always been around and what changed was the advent of 24hr news.which meant that the political message had to be managed in a professional way.