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
losing maybe might newspapers reason tried trying worth
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.
general rather unlike
Unlike the general public, I rather like most politicians.
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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.
hoped lack major policy polls
Yet the barely-moving polls and the lack of major gaffes or policy collapses has made it duller than I, for one, hoped it would be.
anger embarrass people quite
Verbally, I'm quite fast on my feet. I could embarrass or anger most people if I wanted to.
history lessons facts
History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.
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Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.
country clever government
The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the country's big problems and dealt with them. How did it happen that a cabinet of such brilliant, such clever and self-confident people achieved so little? In part, it was the effect of the whirling court politics demonstrated by 'In Place of Strife'.
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Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life - an unabashed sloppiness, if you will - really marks the sixties. It was when Britain went girlie. And what do girls do? Girls shop.
laughter mind news
Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.
modern-journalism confusing answers
The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows it has been a ragged and confusing trade all the way through.
gossip journalism
Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.
long rude pennies
Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.