Earlier in the semester I introduced you to Theyworkforyou which provides online coverage of almost everything that is said in parliament. Here’s how it can be used to devastating effect.
In February Hazel Blears, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, used an article in The Guardian to accuse George Monbiot – a campaigning environmental journalist – of using his position as a political commentator to contribute “to the very cynicism and disengagement from politics” that many people seems endemic in today’s society.
In a devastating riposte Monbiot delves into Blears’s voting record on theyworkforyou.
He then uses the publicly available online record to dismantle her claims sentence-by-sentence. It’s a brilliant piece of online journalism.
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