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Of gimmicks and photo opportunities. you mentioned dan norris who won the metropolitan mayor seat. he had a kind of winners picture where he posed with his pet dog. i think the dog was called angel. it is a very photogenic dog, it has to be said for some is that the kind of stuff that readers and people visiting the website get behind? does it get eyeballs on it? yeah. no question. we are able to collect some data on that, on sort - of what people want to see. but yes, clearly that l is very eye...

Catriona, tell us about strategies for the snp. what was their broad strategy during the election to control the news cycle and do you think they were successful? i think nicola sturgeon is such a savvy media operator. i think she actually benefited having stand against anas sarwar in her glasgow constituency because this was the first time that we had two party leaders standing in one place. and she was very personable throughout the election. obviously there were lots of coronavirus constraint...

Of course, we talk a lot and have been talking a lot about the recent election. one of the defining images or video clips from the election was when im sure you remember this, when keir starmer i think went into a pub and was effectively got into a bit of a ding dong. this story broke primarily not on news websites but broke on twitter. michael, youll be aware, increasingly we are seeing everyone has a smartphone, everyone has a camera. so the model of people generating their own content and the...

Most of them look alike. that is actually one of boris johnsons big political assets. he doesnt look as much like the default politician as much of the rest of them do. most of them look alike. its hard to illustrate political stories. in the case i wrote, i wanted to write about the fact that it was maybe over sentimentalising the it was losing and had a slightly naive approach. it was slightly out of the usual narrative, that huge inflatable. the thing is lets imagine the conservatives had los...

Of this is they dont like accountability and we have to continually drag it out of them, and that is true regardless of the colour of the rosette in which ever bit of government it is. do you think the briefing room wouldve made any impact on scottish politics? i think the cost of it is another faux pas for borisjohnson. he cant seem to do anything right to win the scottish public. thats less than 30 seconds but i appreciate your brevity. thank you to all my guests today. katy balls, deputy poli...

Question for the media to answer. do you think there has been in terms of the reporting too much of a narrow focus in this election? well, i do think that for us - in bristol our focus has been away from the big national story, - which was labour failing to make progress and being plunged into a bit of a crisis - over the weekend. and the spectacular— conservative win in hartlepool. we had a four—day period from the election going l through with the results of four | separate local elections...

That alex salmond didnt really manage to gain a lot of coverage for his campaign. specifically, if we can talk about the idea that there was a lot of talk about the snp getting a majority. the snp themselves downplayed that really. was that strategic and what was the benefit of that? well, its not strategic. i think this is one of the main frustrations of the coverage. particularly in scotland watching coverage. this framing that the snp failed to win a majority and its just become repetitive, t...

There is an argument that journalists are just very fickle and have very short attention spans. how easy or difficult do you think it is to change the news agenda? i think one of the things that is interesting about politics is the advantage of the government party. whether are you the english conservative party, the welsh labour party or the scotish national party, the governing party can change the news agenda. it gets to get to do stuff, it passes legislation, changes peoples lives. i think p...

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And then magically reappeared at the marina when he came to meet the winning candidate in front of a bunch of westminster journalists. that became the narrative. a gigantic triumph for borisjohnson and then the next day the westminister journalists were gone and it moved on to the next thing. today i am asking why does the media fall for these gimmicks? why is the news cycle so fast and so fickle? ive got a brilliant bunch of guests to help me answer these questions. catriona stewart is chief re...