UK News 26-11-2003 who: Alastair Campbell what: Says media cynicism is killing politics where: LONDON when: Last night snippet: In a speech to the Foreign Press Association annual dinner last night, Tony Blair’s former director of communications warned that "good people are being put off going into politics" due to the "relentless negativity" of the press. With more time on his hands since leaving Number Ten, The Times says Mr Campbell will spend some of it "making the case for politics and politicians", in order that they can enter a dialogue with the newspapers “without each side feeling they have to view the other as subhuman”. [... more]

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