Blair and Cameron Podcast Firsts

You know podcasting has now definitely entered the mainstream when two politicians - one a Prime Minister no less, and both leaders of their parties and members of the government - use the medium in conjunction with two national newspapers to convey particular messages to voters in the UK. Yesterday, Prime Minister The Sun newspaper in that paper's first podcast. He uses the medium to David Cameron became the first UK political party leader to record a podcast by using The launched in November) to Shel and I will be talking about these podcasts from the communication perspective in today's edition of Niall Cook points out that the first leader of a UK political party to do a podcast was, in fact, six podcasts in April and May 2005 - that's eight months ago - during the UK general election campaign. So much for journalistic fact-checking - the Telegraph says quite clearly in its podcast that Cameron is the first party leader to do a podcast. Clearly not so. Neville Hobson is the author of the popular Crayon. Visit Neville Hobson's blog: