What you don’t know can’t hurt you: this seems to be the current approach for responding to disinformation by public regulators across the world. Nobody is able to say with any degree of certainty what is actually going on. Read the rest of this entry »
You’re probably more susceptible to misinformation than you think – Darren Lilleker
14 01 2020
Online misinformation works, or so it would seem. One of the more interesting statistics from the 2019 UK general election was that 88% of advertisements posted on social media by the Conservative Party pushed figures that had already been deemed misleading by the UK’s leading fact-checking organisation, Full Fact. And, of course, the Conservatives won the election by a comfortable margin. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Darren Lilleker, Fake News, The Conversation
Categories : Journalism, Social Media
For British Muslims the outlook for 2020 is continuing racist abuse from the press – Brian Cathcart
9 01 2020
‘I speak for myself,’ the outgoing IPSO boss Sir Alan Moses told the Financial Times, ‘but I have a suspicion that [Muslims] are from time to time written about in a way that [newspapers] would simply not write about Jews or Roman Catholics.’Comments : 1 Comment »
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Categories : Journalism, Media Regulation
How the media helped Boris Johnson win the election – Natalie Fenton
4 01 2020
The mediation of messages plays a key part in the outcome of most elections and the United Kingdom’s 12 December 2019 general election was no exception. Incumbent Prime Minister Boris Johnson‘s Conservative Party took the single strapline “Get Brexit Done” and repeated it endlessly. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: General Election, Natalie Fenton
Categories : Journalism, Media
What Boris Johnson’s election win means for British broadcasting – Kerry Traynor
30 12 2019
No sooner had the ballots closed than Boris Johnson’s new government was advancing and accelerating its attack on public service broadcasting, threatening to decriminalise nonpayment of the licence fee, boycott the BBC’s flagship Today programme and review the remit of Channel 4. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Kevin Traynor, The Conversation
Categories : Broadcasting, Journalism
Election coverage: thanks to Brexit, Labour had a media mountain to climb – David Deacon, David Smith and Dominic Wring
24 12 2019
You don’t have to deny the growing political significance of social media to accept that the mainstream media continue to play a vital role in informing and priming public opinion during elections. Moreover, both worlds are deeply connected. Fewer people are buying newspapers but plenty are accessing the same content online. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: David Deacon, David Smith and Dominic Wring, General Election, Newspapers
Categories : Government and Policy, Journalism
How to spot fake news this election – Amy Binns
12 12 2019
The 2019 UK election campaign has been particularly dispiriting for anyone who cares about the truth. Even established parties have proven they are not above using tricks to manipulate the news. Meanwhile, politicians are quick to shout “fake news” about anything they disagree with, even accurate stories. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Amy Binns, Election 2019, Fake News
Categories : Broadcasting, Journalism
UK election 2019: is Brexit dominating the media campaign? – David Deacon, David Smith and Dominic Wring
26 11 2019
Is the UK’s 2019 election a single-issue campaign centered on Brexit? Some newspapers clearly think so, with the Daily Mail and the Sun having already branded it the “Brexmas Election”. These declarations reflect a strong desire to see the Conservatives triumph and for Boris Johnson to enact his core promise to “Get Brexit Done”. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: David Deacon, David Smith and Dominic Wring, Election, The Conversation
Categories : Government and Policy, Journalism
UK election 2019: partisan press is pulling out all the stops against Labour – David Deacon and Dominic Wring
17 11 2019
The idea that there’s no such thing as bad publicity could well be tested in the UK’s 2019 election campaign. So could the proposition that the only worse thing than people talking about you is people not talking about you, if our research into press coverage of the election is any indication. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: David Deacon, Dominic Wring, General Election, The Conversation
Categories : Government and Policy, Journalism
Is there a crisis in British Journalism? Consider this – Brian Cathcart
13 11 2019
A shameful catalogue of events has been unfolding, but most journalists refuse to face it – or report it. All of these are current or recent: Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Journalism, Media Regulation
