British propaganda and news media in the Cold War / John Jenks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jenks, John.

Series:

International communications.

International communications

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cold War--Propaganda.

Cold War.

Mass media and propaganda--Great Britain.

Mass media and propaganda.

Propaganda, Anti-Russian--Great Britain.

Propaganda, Anti-Russian.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--1945-1964.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--1964-1979.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-5134-9

1-280-83392-0

9786610833924

0-7486-2675-1

OCLC:

476051921