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Jesson Foundation lecture Nov 21

Gordon Campbell, former Listener journalist and currently media advisor with the Green Party’s Parliamentary wing will deliver the Bruce Jesson Foundation lecture at the University of Auckland on November 21.

The title of Gordon’s speech is (deep breath): Getting personal: The trends towards tabloidisation, personalisation, and commercialisation and how they are shaping the ways that the media and politicians deal with each other.

Prof Jane Kelsey:

Gordon will  explain why [Parliamentary Press] Gallery coverage and political spin has become increasingly non-linear and apparently trivial in a traditional policy sense. It will conclude by citing a few upcoming issues that will require activists to develop other avenues of political discourse than print and television, and speculates on how this might be done.

Venue: Maidment Theatre
Time: 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Tuesday November 21
No reserved seats