{"id":115,"date":"2008-02-15T17:14:02","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T16:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/2008\/02\/15\/sharia-archbishop\/"},"modified":"2008-02-15T17:14:02","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T16:14:02","slug":"sharia-archbishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/sharia-archbishop\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharia Archbishop!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Archbishop of Canturbury has really hit the news for a bit of public speaking this week! For example, the Telegraph talks about it <a title=\"telegraph public speaking window\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2008\/02\/08\/nrowan308.xml\">here;<\/a> a BBC article can be found <a title=\"BBC public speaking window\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/7232661.stm\">here.<\/a>  If nothing else, it&#8217;s a sure-fire indication that people haven&#8217;t lost their interest in public speaking and so on.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an interesting sub-story here, too &#8211; the actual presentation involved was a lecture given to a room full of lawyers.  That&#8217;s fine: from what I know of the speech it was appropriate for such an audience and such a context.  Sadly, it got taken out of context &#8211; partially by Rowan Williams himself when he did a radio interview before-hand, in which he appears to have forgotten that the audience for that sort of thing would be different to his original audience.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently his style was no longer appropriate: people mis-understood what he was saying, jumped to conclusions and reacted to what they <strong>heard,<\/strong> not what he was saying.<\/p>\n<p>Salutary lessons all round, eh?<\/p>\n<p>A bit of a problem though &#8211; the UK media spent some time slagging the Archbishop off, then, when they realised they&#8217;d mis-reported what was included in the actual speech, slagged him off\u00c2\u00a0 once more for not realising they were going to mis-report him!  Some times you can&#8217;t win&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; but whether or not the media covered themselves in glory, the responsibility for being understood lies with the speaker&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Archbishop of Canturbury has really hit the news for a bit of public speaking this week! For example, the Telegraph talks about it here; a BBC article can be found here. If nothing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentation-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}