{"id":98207,"date":"2014-05-26T09:45:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T09:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=98207"},"modified":"2014-05-29T08:01:36","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T08:01:36","slug":"media-no-longer-the-king-makers-as-ukip-forces-mainstream-parties-to-rethink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=98207","title":{"rendered":"Media no longer the king-makers as Ukip forces mainstream parties to rethink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal<\/w:View> <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser \/> <\/w:WordDocument> <\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Ian Burrell &#8212; Belfast Telegraph May 26, 2014<\/h1>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Just as the UK Independence Party has forced the mainstream parties to rethink their futures, so it should have left the media troubled by self-doubt over their faltering powers as political king-makers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Ukip enjoyed its remarkable election success without the backing of a single national newspaper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A day ahead of the elections, the Daily Mail, surely a paper of choice for many Ukip supporters, warned readers that voting for <a href=\"http:\/\/searchtopics.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/topic\/Nigel_Farage\">Nigel Farage<\/a>&#8216;s party would be &#8220;profoundly counter-productive&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The one media asset Ukip possessed, of course, was Farage himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">By almost universal agreement a highly-effective communicator, he found himself repeatedly invited on to the BBC&#8217;s Question Time and has always been happy to have the cameras follow him into the pub to watch him raise a glass.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Never mind Twitter and <a href=\"http:\/\/searchtopics.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/topic\/Facebook\">Facebook<\/a>, posing with a pint has been Ukip&#8217;s version of social campaigning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Farage and Ukip gave journalists a compelling story. The party injected new drama into an otherwise dull narrative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The result of its blanket coverage was that each negative headline contributed to the sense of Ukip as a growing force.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/debateni\/blogs\/media-no-longer-the-kingmakers-as-ukip-forces-mainstream-parties-to-rethink-30304601.html \">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukip enjoyed its remarkable election success without the support of a single major newspaper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98207"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98424,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98207\/revisions\/98424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}