Tag Index: News

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BBC rebels in the 1970s

The BBC is often portrayed by critical commentators as a monolith, inherently biased and strictly regulated from within. This characterisation both denies the agency of its workers, and deserves further investigation. This talk considers the BBC in the 1970s in Bristol and London, as government intervention in the Corporation increased, particularly over the representation of the conflict in Ireland. At the same time control over programme content was increased by the casualisation of programme […]
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How the news is made

Propaganda and self-censorship in the media

Seasoned media journalists Nicholas Jones and Dorothy Byrne give an inside look at how the news is made. A former BBC correspondent, Nicholas Jones reflects on the dangers of being overwhelmed by a tsunami of propaganda orchestrated by the UK’s mass media. Looking back on a 50-year career reporting on the home front, Jones describes the impact of the coverage fuelled by the British press, from the 1982 Falklands War to the 1984 miners’ strike and the Brexit referendum of 2016. All too often the […]
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