你好,夏威夷!

半年不见的Brad又回来了!喜欢旅行和爱好广泛的他,似乎永远都会为我们带来不同的精彩故事和见闻。那让我们依旧跟随他的文字和图片,穿越空间上的距离,一同享受那游走在世界的美丽心情!     

Driving in China

Brad夫妇今年来中国故地重游。看到如今城市里满大街的汽车代替了20年前比比皆是的自行车,感慨之余,也对中国马路上的交通状况甚是担忧。     

Education,education and indoctrination! Packaging politics and the three ‘Rs’

This paper explores how recent Labour governments have tried systematically to package educational and other social policies for media presentation and public consumption. This concern has resulted in the criticism that Labour is concerned with policy presentation above content: strong on policy spin but weak on policy delivery. The first section explores Labour’s attempts to set a favourable agenda in news media for its educational policies by implementing a rigorous news management strategy: the subsequent section analyses Labour’s unprecedented use of advertising to promote key areas of government policy. There is a particular focus on government advertising in the run up to the 2001 general election. The paper concludes that governments’ increasing reliance on advertising may cross the line which should separate the provision of public information from any attempt to persuade the public to support particular policy choices.