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These profiles also allowed journalists to stress candidates’ local credentials. The Conservative candidate, for example, was a Barrister:
But he was born in a one up and one down council house with an outside toilet and his grandma was a single mum. So I went on that and said in my introduction that he isn’t your typical ‘pin stripe’ Barrister parachuted in from down south: he’s a local lad and he’s standing on that. Oh, and his granddad was the local preacher at the Heckmondwike upper Chapel.
This strategy of writing personalised candidate pro les inevitably resulted in a considerable increase in election stories focused on candidates rather than policies. In 2001, a striking 552 (44.2 per cent) items of coverage focused on candidates at the expense of policy (698 [55.8 per cent]); in 1987, theequivalent gures were 394 (33 per cent) and 798 (66.8 per cent).
Many journalists denied that this approach representing any ‘dumbing down’ of the election coverage, but some were undoubtedly uncomfortable, if not defensive, about this editorial emphasis. ‘I hope it doesn’t come across as tacky’, one journalist commented, ‘because it wasn’t done in a sensational way and it always seemed to swing around to politics anyway because politicians didn’t want to talk about their private lives’.
But he was born in a one up and one down council house with an outside toilet and his grandma was a single mum. So I went on that and said in my introduction that he isn’t your typical ‘pin stripe’ Barrister parachuted in from down south: he’s a local lad and he’s standing on that. Oh, and his granddad was the local preacher at the Heckmondwike upper Chapel.
This strategy of writing personalised candidate pro les inevitably resulted in a considerable increase in election stories focused on candidates rather than policies. In 2001, a striking 552 (44.2 per cent) items of coverage focused on candidates at the expense of policy (698 [55.8 per cent]); in 1987, theequivalent gures were 394 (33 per cent) and 798 (66.8 per cent).
Many journalists denied that this approach representing any ‘dumbing down’ of the election coverage, but some were undoubtedly uncomfortable, if not defensive, about this editorial emphasis. ‘I hope it doesn’t come across as tacky’, one journalist commented, ‘because it wasn’t done in a sensational way and it always seemed to swing around to politics anyway because politicians didn’t want to talk about their private lives’.
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