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SUMMARY:What the Media are doing to our politics - John Lloyd\, Director o
 f Journalism Studies\, Oxford University
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CONTACT:Professor John Naughton
DESCRIPTION:This Public Lecture is given in celebration of the 25th Annive
 rsary of the Wolfson Press Fellowship Programme\, a scheme which brings jo
 urnalists to Cambridge for a term to research a project of their own choos
 ing.  To date\, the Programme has welcomed nearly 300 journalists from 46 
 countries.  The lecturer\, John Lloyd\, is a distinguished journalist who 
 has been a fierce critic of the UK media in recent years.  He argues that 
 our media are no longer functioning as an inquiring check on the excesses 
 of the political class but instead have become an alternative establishmen
 t\, dedicated to a theatrical distrust of individual politicians and a cal
 culated indifference to the real-life intricacies of policy making and gov
 ernment.\n\nThe lecture will be chaired by Dame Patricia Hodgson\, Princip
 al of Newnham College and a member of the BBC Trust.
LOCATION:Lee Hall\, Wolfson College
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