How Press Propaganda Paved the Way to Brexit

• Main Author: Rawlinson, Francis (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Journalism.; Political science.; Political communication.; European Union.; Elections.; Democracy.; Popular Science in Political Science and International Relations.; Political Communication.; European Union Politics.; Electoral Politics.

This book traces how right-wing newspapers in Britain helped shape British public opinion about the European Union over the course of the 20 years preceding the EU referendum in June 2016. The author argues that newspapers such as theTelegraph, Mail, Sun and Express have been effectively waging a lo...

Table of Contents:

• PART I: BACKGROUND
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The history of the UK's relations with the EU: from reliable if sometimes awkward partner to estranged outsider
• 3. National identity, the British media and press propaganda
• PART II: BUSTING MYTHS
• 4. "Taking back control of our laws": I. Democracy
• 5. "Taking back control of our laws": II. Sovereignty
• 6. "Taking back control of our money": The cost of EU membership
• 7. "Taking back control of our borders": Is the EU to blame for immigration?
• PART III: CONCLUSION
• 8. Conclusion.