Northern Ireland, the BBC, and censorship in Thatcher's Britain / Robert J. Savage.
By: Savage, Robert J [author.]
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022Description: viii, 295 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780192849748Subject(s): Television -- Censorship -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Television and politics -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Television and state -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Broadcasting policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Northern Ireland -- History -- 1968-1998 -- Press coverage | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1979-1997DDC classification: 303.376094109048 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 303.376094109048 SAV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 021741 |
The hunger strikes -- The image of Northern Ireland : 'Britain's wasteland'? -- Noraid and the Brighton bomb -- The edge of the union? The anglo-Irish Agreement and its aftermath -- Routine chaos? Eniskillen, Gibraltar, and the persistence of 'the Troubles' -- The broadcasting ban -- The end of censorship?
"This is a study of how the Northern Ireland conflict was presented to an increasingly global audience during the premiership of Britain's 'Iron Lady', Margaret Thatcher. It addresses the tensions that characterized the relationship between the broadcast media and the Thatcher Government throughout the 1980s. Robert J. Savage explores how that tension worked its way into decisions made by managers, editors, and reporters addressing a conflict that seemed insoluble."-- Taken from dust jacket.