British propaganda and news media in the cold war /

British propaganda and news media in the cold war /

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 inform...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jenks, John
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2006.
Series:International communications.
Subjects:
1945-1964
Geschichte 1946-1956.
Cold War > Propaganda.
Mass media and propaganda > Great Britain.
Propaganda, Anti-Russian > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Foreign relations > 1945-1964.
Online Access:CONNECT
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Table of Contents:
  • Propaganda, media and hegemony : the British heritage
  • Media, propaganda, consensus and the Soviet Union, 1941-8
  • Discipline and consensus : the British news media
  • The IRD : inside the knowledge factory
  • IRD distribution patterns and media operations
  • Friends and allies
  • Making peace a fighting word
  • From the inside out : defectors and the gulag.

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