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Culture Wars: the media and the left in Britain, 2nd edition
Culture Wars investigates the relationship between the media and politics in Britain today. It focusses on how significant sections of the national press have represented and distorted the policies of the Labour Party, and particularly its left, from the Thatcher era up to and including Ed Milibandâs and Jeremy Corbynâs leaderships. Revised and updated, including five brand new chapters, this second edition shows how press hostility to the left, particularly newspaper coverage of its policies on race, gender and sexuality, has morphed into a more generalised campaign against âpolitical correctnessâ, the âliberal eliteâ and the so-called âenemies of the peopleâ. Combining fine-grained case studies with authoritative overviews of recent British political and media history, Culture Wars demonstrates how much of the press have routinely attacked Labour and, in so doing, have abused their political power, distorted public debate and negatively impacted the news agendas of public service broadcasters. The book also raises the intriguing question of whether the rise of social media, and the success of its initial exploitation by Corbyn supporters, followed by Labour as a whole in the 2017 General Election, represent a major shift in the balance of power between Labour and the media, and in particular the right-wing press
The Article 50 ruling means Parliament must not merely rubber-stamp Brexit with a three-line bill
The High Court has ensured the government cannot trigger Brexit without parliamentary approval, write Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos, Geoffrey Nice QC, Ben Chigara, Julian Petley, Ignacio de la Rasilla and Katja Sarmiento-Mirwaldt, on behalf of the Britain in Europe think tank. If the Supreme Court upholds the ruling, MPs and peers now have a responsibility to scrutinise the governmentâs plans and not merely rubber-stamp a legislative act with a three-line mandate for triggering Article 50
Television news and the symbolic criminalisation of young people
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Journalism Studies, 9(1), 75 - 90, 2008, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14616700701768105.This essay combines quantitative and qualitative analysis of six UK television news programmes. It seeks to analyse the representation of young people within broadcast news provision at a time when media representations, political discourse and policy making generally appear to be invoking young people as something of a folk devil or a locus for moral panics. The quantitative analysis examines the frequency with which young people appear as main actors across a range of different subjects and analyses the role of young people as news sources. It finds a strong correlation between young people and violent crime. A qualitative analysis of four âspecial reportsâ or backgrounders on channel Five's Five News explores the representation of young people in more detail, paying attention to contradictions and tensions in the reports, the role of statistics in crime reporting, the role of victims of crime and the tensions between conflicting news frames.Arts and Humanities Research Counci
The re-regulation of broadcasting: Or the mill ownersâ triumph
Discusses the driving forces behind the Communications Bill 2001 of Great Britain. Terms of the bill; Arguments concerning the re-regulation
'It's a film' : medium specificity as textual gesture in Red road and The unloved
British cinema has long been intertwined with television. The
buzzwords of the transition to digital media, 'convergence' and
'multi-platform delivery', have particular histories in the British
context which can be grasped only through an understanding of the
cultural, historical and institutional peculiarities of the British film
and television industries. Central to this understanding must be two
comparisons: first, the relative stability of television in the duopoly
period (at its core, the licence-funded BBC) in contrast to the repeated
boom and bust of the many different financial/industrial combinations
which have comprised the film industry; and second, the cultural and
historical connotations of 'film' and 'television'. All readers of this
journal will be familiar â possibly over-familiar â with the notion that
'British cinema is alive and well and living on television'. At the end of
the first decade of the twenty-first century, when 'the end of medium
specificity' is much trumpeted, it might be useful to return to the
historical imbrication of British film and television, to explore both
the possibility that medium specificity may be more nationally specific
than much contemporary theorisation suggests, and to consider some
of the relationships between film and television manifest at a textual
level in two recent films, Red Road (2006) and The Unloved (2009)
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âAre We Insane ?â. The âVideo Nastyâ Moral Panic
The events which led to the imposition of state video censorship in the UK in 1984 are frequently described as constituting a moral panic. However, with the exception of Critcher (2003) these events have never actually been analysed in the light of moral panic theory, and this article attempts this task in much greater detail than Critcher, whose concerns go beyond this particular panic about videos. The article shows how concerns about the new medium of home video were first expressed in the press in May 1982, and details the first prosecutions of videos under the Obscene Publications Act in August of that year. The artiÂcle explains the role of moral entrepreneurs such as Mary Whitehouse and politicians of all parties in helping to create this particular panic, but its main focus is on the role played by the national press in amplifying the panic and creating a signification spiral in which the alleged threat posed by the so-called âvideo nastiesâ was constantly escalated, as well as converged with other apparent threats to the social order. The result was an increasingly strident campaign for firm legislative measures to be taken. The article argues that the events which led to the passing of the Video Recordings Act (1984) need to be understood as a process of communication involving a deviance-defining elite of politicians, moral entrepreneurs and censorious newspapers, a process from which the public itself was largely absent, constant press invocations of âpublic opinionâ notwithstanding
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