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from americanjournalism and it pains me to say this is as a proud brit is that we need to be much more transparent about those relationships. joeyjones, you went through that revolving door. you were a deputy political editor at sky news before you went to work for theresa may in 2016. what is a politician buying when they offer a job of this kind? um.| think it depends on the individual politician. i mean, obviously if a politician is taking someone from the lobby, they would expect that individual to be very good at putting themselves in the shoes of a journalist, and anticipating the way in which a story may develop, where it might head. that they understand the personalities at play because they ve worked alongside those journalists, as well. some politicians, i think, actually probably are better served by people who have a very different background. i mean, some of the best spin doctors were notjournalists. i remember sitting at the back of the red lion, watching damian mcbri
that they understand the personalities at play because they ve worked alongside those journalists, as well. some politicians, i think, actually probably are better served by people who have a very different background. i mean, some of the best spin doctors were notjournalists. i remember sitting at the back of the red lion, watching damian mcbride firing off emails left, right and centre. gordon brown s spin doctor. gordon brown s spin doctor, absolutely, you know, pushing all the buttons of the sunday lobby. he was absolutely a complete master of that. whereas i think borisjohnson, as helen says as somebody with a journalistic background he probably would have been better served by someone like dominic cummings, with his disdain for the lobby, probably trying to reign in the prime minister s instincts always to respond with his disdain for the lobby, probably trying to rein in the prime minister s instincts always to respond to the front page headline. so you re doing your colleag
i mean, obviously if a politician is taking someone from the lobby, they would expect that individual to be very good at putting themselves in the shoes of a journalist, and anticipating the way in which a story may develop, where it might head. that they understand the personalities at play because they ve worked alongside those journalists, as well. some politicians, i think, actually probably are better served by people who have a very different background. i mean, some of the best spin doctors were notjournalists. i remember sitting at the back of the red lion, watching damian mcbride firing off emails left, right and centre. gordon brown s spin doctor. gordon brown s spin doctor, absolutely, you know, pushing all the buttons of the sunday lobby. he was absolutely a complete master of that. whereas i think borisjohnson, as helen says as somebody with a journalistic background he probably would have been better served by someone like dominic cummings, with his disdain for the lo
david cameron s spokesman was craig oliver. you know, this is not. you know, labour had seumas milne from the guardian. you know, this is not an unusual thing at all. what s slightly more unusual in this case is moving back again so quickly. and that, i think, is the thing that makes it very hard because people are inevitably asking, hang on a minute, is the sun reporting this with one hand tied behind its back because its own hierarchy are involved in the story? and that can be very difficult as a kind of conflict of interest thing to square. but also the way through this, you know, borisjohnson is a formerjournalist himself he has great contacts in a number of papers. there has been, you know, an enormous problem of cosiness and perhaps undeclared interests of people writing about this story that i do think has a really corrosive effect on people s trust in journalism. now, you know, you can t be a whitehall or lobby correspondent without having really brilliant sources, and some
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