The World of Politics within the Media.

Unfortunately, due to allegations of racism on my blog, specifically towards Chinese people, i have decided to change the topic of my project. My new topic will be Politics and the media. I have been looking at various different topic hypothesis. I want to go something along the lines of "What impact does printed media support have on political party success in Britain". Why not let me know your thoughts about this? I am very open to sensible suggestions without being accused of racism against Chinese people or Politicians now. I think in various different areas i will look at the media images of Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and more recently David Cameron of the Conservative party. The specific area of public image through media has always fascinated me and comparing and contrasting the two Labour prime ministers with a new radical Conservative opposition will also be an interesting area of study for me personally. This topic will be aided by the fact that i also study Politics and history for A-Level. I will also be trying to focus on various issues such as regional variation in audience and asking questions such as "how does the media influence different people in different areas?" I will look at Sales figures of papers in different "political hot spot" areas. In all of these areas of study i will be very careful to not dabble in Internet opinion's or other forms of media unless its the online site of a newspaper, such as the Guardian online.

I have done some basic research into my first focus icon, Tony Blair and his influence of the printed media. Tony Blair was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield. I thought about this and wondered if this could have anything to do with the way people viewed him. He seemed to be very popular in his constituency and was viewed by the members of the community to be "a very working class man but with radical ideas" (The Guardian newspaper 1997). However i wondered if coming from such a working class, poor environment this might influence people to ask the question "is this man fit to run the country?" this question seemed, according to conservative voters, particularly prominent.

I also wondered if Tony Blair's close relationship with Rupert Murdoch had anything to do with his so found success in his early years.
"Tony Blair's close relationship with Rupert Murdoch and the reciprocated unprecedented support which he received from Murdoch's globally influential news corporation media empire, has been subject of much criticism" - (The Guardian Online 2005)

More to come soon.