British propaganda and news media in the Cold War [[electronic resource] /] / John Jenks
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| Autore: |
Jenks John
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| Titolo: |
British propaganda and news media in the Cold War [[electronic resource] /] / John Jenks
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| Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (177 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 327.14094109045 |
| Soggetto topico: | Cold War - Propaganda |
| Mass media and propaganda - Great Britain | |
| Propaganda, Anti-Russian - Great Britain | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Foreign relations 1945-1964 |
| Great Britain Foreign relations 1964-1979 | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | British propaganda and news media in the Cold War |
| ISBN: | 0-7486-5134-9 |
| 1-280-83392-0 | |
| 9786610833924 | |
| 0-7486-2675-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910820008203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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International communications.