Format:
Online-Ressource (168 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0748623140
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9780748626755
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9780748623143
Series Statement:
International Communications EUP
Content:
This is a study of the British state's generation, suppression and manipulation of news to further foreign policy goals during the early Cold War. Bribing editors, blackballing "unreliable" journalists, creating instant media experts through provision of carefully edited "inside information", and exploiting the global media system to plant propaganda - disguised as news - around the world: these were all methods used by the British to try to convince the international public of Soviet deceit and criminality and thus gain support for anti-Soviet policies at home and abroad. John Jenks draws hea
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Propaganda, Media and Hegemony: The British Heritage; 2 Media, Propaganda, Consensus and the Soviet Union, 1941-8; 3 Discipline and Consensus: The British News Media; 4 The IRD: Inside the Knowledge Factory; 5 IRD Distribution Patterns and Media Operations; 6 Friends and Allies; 7 Making Peace a Fighting Word; 8 From the Inside Out: Defectors and the Gulag; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780748623143
Additional Edition:
Print version British Propaganda and News Media in the Cold War
Language:
English
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