29th Aug 2008
Good Spin and Crisis
Obama may be giving America hope but back home the crisis continues and O’Conall Street understands even some Dublin officials now believe the power sharing executive could be on its last legs. More on the crisis in today’s Belfast Telegraph.
This brinkmanship is driving a wedge between the hope of a new North shared by the vast majority of ordinary people and increasingly partisan bickering from Sinn Fein and the DUP.
Rumor has it SF want an election. But what will another election fix?
The DUP are unlikely to be toppled by the UUP and few would put serious money on the SDLP overtaking SF in a snap poll. Fact is the election would leave us right back where we are.
This will be sorted around the Executive table. Nowhere else.
The Good Spin of the day comes from the Belfast Festival At Queens. All through the dark years the festival brought light into the shortening evenings. This year is no different and for those us interested in the media and public relations there are a couple of events to look forward to.
The talks line up includes Mary Robinson, Cherie Blair, Will Self and Jeremy Isaacs on ‘Broadcasting - the case for diversity’.
There is also an exhibition on the history of Public Relations Photography which will be well supported by the profession.
We may be failed by politics this autumn in Northern Ireland. In America, it has never been more alive.
Hope dies last.
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