Message discipline refers to the consistent delivery of a specific message or talking points, without varying or getting off track. It means staying focused and sticking to the main points when you communicate, while avoiding deviation or distractions.
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The change of approach toward Mueller's investigation drew more attention to the lack
of message discipline that has plagued Trump's legal team and the White House.
But that is what some of your frontbench spokesmen have been saying to the press — they are bored of this
rigid message discipline.
Harper's first chief of staff, Ian Brodie, was a long - standing friend of the PM's who imposed
strict message discipline on the entire government, often telephoning MPs directly to warn them when they were getting out of line.
Meanwhile, I can not recall a single instance of
democratic message discipline that reached anything like the same heights of coordination (or, if you prefer, depths of obfuscation).
A political archeologist looking for traces of the edifice that was once New
Labour message discipline could extract it from the bitten lips of former ministers now on the backbench, repressing the urge to attack their leader.
Balancing message discipline and real citizen involvement in politics is going to be a problem for traditionally - minded campaign operatives.
And it was also clear that after two weeks of his ministers fighting like cats in a bag, Cameron had failed to
establish message discipline.
«I can't speak for Republicans, but I can tell you,
without message discipline, this has been a very difficult, uphill battle for the president.»
More likely, commotions about singing the national anthem, or what he will wear at the Cenotaph, or even things
like message discipline within the Shadow Cabinet, are for him part of a corrupt, myopic style of politics he has always rejected.
Weiner says now that there's nothing stopping him from telling the unvarnished truth, and that the new Weiner might come across on the trail as «somewhere between Chauncey Gardner and Bulworth,» which actually sounds kind of awesome next to the prospect of several more months of Christine Quinn's front -
running message discipline.
The intraparty split on the inspector general topic is only unusual because it involves Nassau Republicans, who have long been known for top -
down messaging discipline.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who have both remained close to Trump, are hoping to convince their party's nominee that he must move forward with
more message discipline and restraint, NBC News reported.
Dating coach Peter Spalton suggests that the best results come from
making messaging a disciplined, planned endeavour — setting aside a small window each day to say hi to those you find intriguing.4 Just remember: try and be brief, personal and original!
As a result of this
rigid message discipline, the Tory claim that only they could be trusted long - term with the economy was drilled into millions of voters» minds.
The FT reports on the disquiet in Labour ranks over Corbyn's bid to
impose message discipline, with a source telling the paper that Corbyn is behaving like Nixon and that:
The organizations formed an umbrella group with press done by Cuomo ally Jennifer Cunningham, New Yorkers United for Marriage, in order to consolidate lobbying efforts and follow a Cuomo - style brand
of message discipline.
Message discipline is easy to mock.
The nationalists, like New Labour, well understand
that message discipline is key.
They'd studied closely how Bill Clinton and his advisers had remade the Democrats — through triangulation,
message discipline, media mastery — as a centrist, optimistic, pro-capitalist, election - winning force.
Expect «air war»
message discipline, perhaps even more than in a «normal» election, with a difficult to track digital ground war bombardment.
Whatever happened to
message discipline?
The message discipline in the current Parliamentary Labour Party is impressive by comparison.
Part of the group's role is to enforce a kind of
message discipline, and one topic of discussion there, sources said, was a campaign launched last month by some of the more liberal members of the coalition — the Campaign for America's Future, USAction, and liberal blogger Jane Hamsher — under the rubric «Dog the Blue Dogs.»
«The best part about Tim, which he's said repeatedly: he has
no message discipline, and he's not interested in learning any,» Farahnik said, to chuckles.
Cameron gave a master class in
message discipline, deftly turning every question back onto his main point, that a vote for Clegg was a vote for five more years of Gordon Brown.
There will be
message discipline.
Don't they have
any message discipline?
«They are showing
the message discipline they need to get these anti-environmental policies past suburban voters,» said Ken Cook, president of the organization.