Andrew Marr
Andrew Marr
Andrew William Stevenson Marris a British journalist and television presenter. Beginning his career as a political commentator, he subsequently edited The Independent, and was political editor of BBC News. He began hosting a political programme—Sunday AM, now called The Andrew Marr Show—on Sunday mornings on BBC One from September 2005. In 2002, Marr took over as host of BBC Radio 4's long-running Start the Week Monday morning discussion programme ...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth31 July 1959
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My kids wouldn't dream of buying a newspaper - and we are a newspaper household.
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I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.
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If all newspapers are losing circulation, maybe it's just worth trying to go back to some reporting, to see if that might be the reason - even if only one newspaper tried it, to see what happened.
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There is a market for pictures like this. Diana sold an awful lot of newspapers one way or another. But look at the result. We all have to think again.
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I think it requires leadership from editors and senior broadcasters to try and turn that around and back off the position where we are opinionated first, and come round to the facts later,
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Verbally, I'm quite fast on my feet. I could embarrass or anger most people if I wanted to.
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Unlike the general public, I rather like most politicians.
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Interviews, and hence interviewers, are there to help shed light, and to let viewers judge for themselves. We are not judges, juries, commentators or torturers - nor friends, either.
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In the end, does it really matter if newspapers physically disappear? Probably not: the world is always changing. But does it matter if organisations independent enough and rich enough to employ journalists to do their job disappear? Yes, that matters hugely; it affects the whole of life and society.
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Clearly the human story is one of acceleration. There has been a Moore curve in terms of the number of people alive on the planet, our technological ability, and our ability to understand ourselves. We have had this extraordinary, explosive growth in our ingenuity.
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This has been an extremely uncomfortable week for Mr Blair.
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I can make Tony Blair, Michael Howard, Charles Kennedy or anyone else look bumbling, irrelevant, tetchy... or rather brilliant.