Archive for party political broadcast
Say goodbye to broken promises: the first Lib Dem election broadcast
Here it is:
Nice use of simple format, but done in an energetic and interesting way. Striking contrast with Labour’s broadcast: Clegg is on screen all the time; Brown was absent from Labour’s.
Have fun speculating whether all those pieces of paper are CGI or whether some poor intern got the fun job of scattering and then [...]
Daily View 2×2: 10 April 2010 – featuring a Monty Python political broadcast
It’s Sunday. It’s 9am. It’s time for some Monty Python, but first the news.
2 Must-Read Blog Posts
What are other Liberal Democrat bloggers saying? Here are two posts that have caught the eye from the Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator:
Labour’s totally contradictory messages – in the same leaflet! Jonathan Wallace highlights the Labour leaflet that contradicts itself [...]
Labservative: the party hits the streets to find out what the public thinks
“This is a man. This is a street. Let’s talk Labservative.” More Alan Partridge than your usual Party Political Broadcast fare:
Also on YouTube here.
Party Election Broadcasts: BBC Trust consults on new complaints procedure
The BBC Trust is running an online survey asking for views on its plans for a new complaints procedure for Party Election Broadcasts. Although the BBC generally steers clear of the content of PEBs – leaving that to the parties in question – there are often issues around who gets how many and when they [...]
Party Political Broadcasts: Ofcom proposes some tweaks to the rules
You have until 25 November to give Ofcom your views of their proposed amendments to the rules governing Party Political Broadcasts. Ofcom’s rules apply to the commercial outlets that run PPBs – Channels 3, 4 and Five, Classic FM, talkSPORT and Absolute AM. (The BBC and S4C have their own rules.)
Aside from some tidying up [...]
Party political broadcasts: The greatest hits
In 1999 a video tape collection was published (which is still available second-hand), and this is my review of it published in the Journal of Liberal History, Issue 23 that year. The eagle-eyed pedant may be a little confused by the start of this videotape. It announces that in 1953 Harold Macmillan stared in the [...]
Change politics for good: PPB preview
It’s all go on the political reform front today. Apart from Nick Clegg’s op-ed in The Guardian, front page newspaper coverage, detailed policy proposals and new campaign website, there’s also the little matter of today’s party political broadcast, also on the same theme. It’s appearing on TV screens this evening, but you can watch it [...]
The thing David Cameron wants you to forget when watching his election broadcast
Today’s election broadcast from the Conservatives simply features David Cameron talking to camera about MPs and their expense claims. The message is meant to be about him facing up to the problems and talking frankly about them.
But listen to his language:
I want to start by saying sorry … sorry for the actions of some Conservative [...]
