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Well it's not working.
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he doesn't begin from the point of assuming the media is the enemy and working out from there.
The suggestion being that Corbyn did, but there was a lot of comment from mainstream journalists when Corbyn became leader that he was very open and willing to engage with them in a way unlike most other political interviewees.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/oct/04/jeremy-corbyn-poiitical-interviewing-labout-candid
Did the media end up giving Corbyn a fairer crack of the whip because he was nice? No.
I'm skeptical that if Starmer gets a fairer representation it's purely down to being nice to them. Unless by nice you mean representing their political interests, holidaying with them and becoming godfather their child?
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l'll never understand that point. Managing the press is a skill any modern political leader must have. I don't think Starmer's great at it, but at the very least he doesn't begin from the point of assuming the media is the enemy and working out from there. He recognises that the press have an important duty in regulating power, and he attempts to engage with them honestly. The result is that the media are prepared to give him a fairer crack of the whip. That's not co-incidence, that's strategy.