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1 online resource (289 pages) |
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Communication and Society Ser |
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Communication and Society Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Chapter 1: Introduction: Resurrection of the undead; Generational outriders; Battle for the soul of the Labour Party; Notes; Chapter 2: Rise of the 'loony left'; Product of transition; Product of a generation; Notes; Chapter 3: Goodbye to the clowns; Genesis of a political crusade; Political subversion; Moral subversion; Patrons of deviance; Crystallisation; Political Retribution; Notes; Chapter 4: Press boomerang; Hidden roots of resilience; Broadcast shield against the press |
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Partial rehabilitationBenefits of victimhood; Classic advertising campaign; Community campaigning; Government's failure; Media logic; Losing the elite debate; Failed counter-attack; Victory in defeat; Blocked legacies; Notes; Chapter 5: 'Not funny but sick': Urban myths; Latter-day folk devils; The 'racist' bin liner; 'Barmy' Bernie Grant; 'A total tissue of lies'; 'Now the Lefties bar manholes'; 'Baa Baa Black Sheep': Hackney; 'Baa Baa Black Sheep': Haringey; 'Baa Baa Black Sheep': Islington; 'Fake news'; Notes |
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Chapter 6: 'A wave of hysteria and bigotry': Sexual politics and the 'loony left'Introduction; Setting the scene; 'Putting the gay in Haringey'; Positive images; 'Freedom fighters of the angry suburbs'; Labour on the defensive19; 'Kicked into line'; From Haringey to the Lords; 'Promoting homosexuality': Haringey and the genesis of section 28; 'A sordid role'; A perfectly circular process; The magic of reiteration; Notes; Chapter 7: Toxifying the new urban left; Introduction; Mirage of press power; Press disrupts a divided party; Pre-election influence; Delegitmating the new urban left |
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Mythologising the 'London effect'Absence of sustained retribution; Decline of local democracy; Notes; Chapter 8: Slaying the dragon; Notes; Chapter 9: The Blair ascendancy; Notes; Chapter 10: 'Enemies of the people': The press, racism and Labour; 'Every colour is a good colour'; 'Bizarre issues' and 'peculiar things'; Press racism; A lesson from history; Anti-anti-racism; Institutional racism; 'A flawed and dangerous concept'; 'Political correctness gone mad'; 'Something terrible is happening'; A galvanic reaction; Targeting Labour; Spin and wishful thinking; 'Commissars of the new order' |
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ConclusionNotes; Chapter 11: All change at the top; Notes; Chapter 12: Return of the repressed; Gay liberation; Feminism; Environmentalism; Anti-racism; Brexit revolt; Notes; Chapter 13: What goes around comes around; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
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 Miliband's and Jeremy Corbyn's 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 'political correctness', the 'liberal elite' and the so-called 'enemies of the people'. 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. Culture Wars will be of considerable interest to students and researchers in the fields of media, politics and contemporary British history, and will also attract those with a more general interest in current affairs in the UK |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Social change -- Great Britain -- History
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Political culture -- Great Britain -- History
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Social values -- Great Britain -- History
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Conflict of generations -- Political aspects -- Great Britain
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Mass media -- Political aspects -- Great Britain
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New Left -- Great Britain -- History
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New Left -- Press coverage -- Great Britain
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Right and left (Political science)
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Conflict of generations -- Political aspects
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Mass media -- Political aspects
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New Left
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Political culture
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Right and left (Political science)
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Social change
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Social values
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gaber, Ivor
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Petley, Julian
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| ISBN |
9781315406176 |
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1315406179 |
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9781315406169 |
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1315406160 |
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9781315406152 |
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1315406152 |
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9781315406183 |
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1315406187 |
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