【正文】 n Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin accused the two big press barons, Lords Beaverbrook and Rothermere, of running their papers as “engines of propaganda” for the “personal wishes and dislikes of two men”.He famously accused them of seeking “power without responsibility—the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages”.It’s hard to imagine the current Prime Minister Tony Blair attacking the tabloid press so book out this week, written by one of his former press advisers, claims he was “obsessed” with the media during his first term in Government, sometimes making up policy on the hoof simply to give newspapers and broadcasters a one occasion, it says, was due to go on breakfast television with the veteran interviewer Sir David Frost and the Sunday papers were full of reports of a new rift with his Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon book’s author, Lance Price, describes in his diary the response of the Prime Minister’s press office: “Our aim is to knock the story out by ing up with a better with half an hour to go before Tony Blair’s appearance, we decide to launch a war on drugs.”An announcement was rushed out that crime suspects would face mandatory drugs tests, a policy that then had to be squared with the minister and officials in charge of drugs has courted tabloid newspaper editors former editor of the Daily Mirror Piers Morgan claimed earlier this year that he met the Labour leader no fewer than fiftyeight times for lunches, dinners or interviews, a statistic which astonished many in Government and the media, who thought a party leader and Prime Minister should have had better ways to spend his Tony Blair has good reason to court the Britain, Labour, leftofcentre governments, have always had problems with national newspapers, most of whose owners traditionally supported the rightofcentre Conservative came to a head on Election Day in 1992 when Labour seemed set to win power for the first time in eighteen those days, Britain’s biggestselling daily paper, The Sun, part of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, was no friend of Labour, indeed it had been Margaret Thatcher’s biggest morning, on its front page, it depicted the bald head of the then Labour leader Neil Kinnock as a light ran the headline: “If Kinnock wins today, will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights?” Labour the next election, Tony Blair was the party’s leader and determined to win over, or at least neutralise, The Sun and its succeeded, moving the Labour Party towards the centre ground, and gaining The Sun’s endorsement at the last three in Government, Labour played hardball with the media, relishing its power, and aware that if it didn’t take charge of the agenda, the media key figure was the former political editor of the Daily Mirror, Alastair Campbell, who took charge not just of the Prime Minister’s press office but all government press officers, trying to ensure the Government spoke with one who reported favourably were given privileged access, those who didn’t were frozen maintained his close links with Rupert Murdoch and his newspapers, doing everything he could to maintain their Price claims in his diaries that the Government assured the tycoon and his editors that it wouldn’t change its policy on Europe without asking Prime Minister also built a relationship with another Conservative newspaper, the midmarket Daily Mail, which has a sure instinct for the issues and policies that concern the British middle Mail led a campaign to reduce the number of asylum seekers ing to Britain and it’s often said that in trying to show they’re tough on criminals and the causes of crime Blair and his ministers are following the Daily Mail’s Lance Price says the Government’s obsession with the media can be counterproductive.“You have to understand the power the media has, but it is unwise to bee a plete slave to that,” he writes.“If you are too preoccupied with what the media are doing, you run the risk of doing things to produce headlines rather than what is good for the country.” and grassroots members are supposed to do several things during the Labour Party’s annual of the following issues is NOT one of them? did the former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin accuse the two big press barons of? did the Prime Minister’s press office decide to do half an hour before Tony Blair’s interview? of the following daily papers is not mentioned in the talk? ’s the best title for this talk? This is the end of SECTION 1, Listening 全真模擬試題八（II）聽力原文SECTION 4: LISTENING TEST Part A: Notetaking and Gapfilling Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear a short will hear the talk ONLY listening to the talk, you may take notes on the important points so that you can have enough information to plete a gapfilling task on a separate ANSWER are required to write ONE word or figure only in each will not get your ANSWER BOOKLET until after you have listened to the listen to the talk ’s nearly ten years since I wrote the letter that produced such a phenomenal response from listeners to this started with a producer called and asked if I would think of writing a piece about being a foreign correspondent and a said was on paternity leave and overwhelmed with the sleeplessness of early also wondered what on earth I would Our Own Correspondent(FOOC)was my favourite programme, the greatest vehicle for storytelling anywhere on the BBC, and I didn’t see how the arrival of one reporter’s child might possibly engage the FOOC, as we correspondents call it, was the place to talk about our experience of other people’s lives and countries, not to reflect on our producer of the programme thought he knew called again.“Give it a try at least,” he said.“Being a parent is a universal write it from the point of view of a foreign correspondent.” I said I would think about I didn’t “think”.Instead, one morning early, sitting up with the baby in one arm, I just started to to my writing I spo