Two weeks. That's how much longer Britons and the world will have to endure the reign of Tony Blair. After that he can go up on that big shelf reserved for politicians who ascend to great heights only to plummet into the abyss.
Blair goes out unrepentant. He still maintains the Iraq conquest was the right thing to have done. Then again, what is his alternative?
In the process of cleaning out his desk Tony still finds time to take swipes at his critics. Today he blasted the British media in a speech the Times described as "venomous."
"The fear of missing out means today's media, more than ever, hunts in a pack," he said. "In these modes, it is like a feral beast just tearing people and reputations to bits. But no-one dares miss out."
Claiming that the pressures of 24-hour news and the internet had left newspapers and television stations more concerned with impact than accuracy, he said: "The result ... is a media that increasingly and to a dangerous degree is driven by ’impact.'
"Impact is what matters. It is all that can distinguish, can rise above the clamour, can get noticed. Impact gives competitive edge. Of course, the accuracy of a story matters, but it is secondary often to impact."
Mr. Blair is a stickler for truth and accuracy unless, that is, it comes in the form of conveniently dodgy intelligence reports or waging unprovoked war on feeble states.
2 comments:
And you call yourself a Liberal and proceed to denounce the most successful Labour PM in UK history in terms of electability.
No wonder why you have problems with Stephane Dion.
Note that I am not a Blair fan and would be considered loony on some issues.
I'm not interested in Blair's electibility. It's his record and all the senseless deaths that matter to me. What party he represents is irrelevant, utterly irrelevant.
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