LEADER 03985nam 2200433 450 001 9910739429803321 005 20210219110716.0 010 $a3-030-55571-2 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-55571-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000011469586 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6355564 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-55571-9 035 $a(PPN)25946385X 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011469586 100 $a20210219d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPost-truth, post-press, post-Europe $eEuroscepticism and the crisis of political communication /$fPaul Rowinski 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (IX, 252 p. 1 illus.) 225 1 $aRhetoric, Politics and Society 311 $a3-030-55570-4 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. A Voyage Through Emotive Rhetoric: and the Challenge to Truth -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Italy First -- 5. Italy First: A Journey in to Emotive Rhetoric -- 6. Britain First -- 7. Britain First: A Journey in to Emotive Rhetoric -- 8. Conclusions. 330 $a?Paul Rowinski's typically robust polemic pulls few punches and is not for the faint-hearted or the closed-minded. Ardent fans of tabloid xenophobia masked as Euroscepticism are unlikely to enjoy this rollercoaster ride, an uncompromising critique of the political and journalistic rhetoric of contemporary European nationalism. This book fights fire with fire. It isn't so much a cure for the rabid pack of the populist press and their demagogic masters. Rowinski has brought a shotgun to the party, and his cartridges are well primed.? ?Professor Alec Charles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Winchester, UK This book explores whether a beleaguered press in recent years has been developing an emotive, Eurosceptic post-truth rhetoric of its own ? competing for attention with populist politicians. These politicians now by-pass the media, talking directly to their publics in blogs, on Twitter and Facebook. In the post-truth age, objective facts are less influential in shaping opinion than appeals to emotion. Audiences congregate around views they share and want to believe. The author presents a critical discourse analysis of the language used by populist politicians online, on Facebook, and subsequently quoted in the press, which highlights how the political rhetoric of Italian and British politicians is often at its most inflammatory around the issue of immigration. The same goes for the press. The Italian case study focuses on media coverage of the 2014 and 2019 European elections and 2018 general election. The British case study examines press reporting of the 2016 UK referendum on EU membership, the 2017 general election, and the September 2019 parliamentary debate immediately following the UK Supreme Court ruling that proroguing of Parliament was illegal. From the picture that emerges, the author argues that journalists need to change how they report, to challenge the post-truthers, holding them to account and pressing them on the facts while also harnessing the emotions of disaffected publics. Paul Rowinski is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. He worked for the regional, national and transnational press for two decades, including as a UK central European correspondent, writing for the Financial Times, The Independent, The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and The European. His research focuses on the discourse and political communication of Europe in the media. 410 0$aRhetoric, Politics and Society 676 $a341.2422 700 $aRowinski$b Paul$0987530 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910739429803321 996 $aPost-truth, post-press, post-Europe$93553802 997 $aUNINA