The Bbc'S 'Irish Troubles' : Television, Conflict and Northern Ireland Paperback / softback
by Robert Savage
Paperback / softback
Description
This book explores how news and information about the conflict in Northern Ireland was disseminated through the most accessible, powerful and popular form of media: television.
It focuses on the BBC and considers how its broadcasts complicated the 'Troubles’ by challenging decisions, policies and tactics developed by governments trying to defeat a stubborn insurgency that threatened national security. The book uses highly original sources to consider how the BBC upset the efforts of a number of governments to control the narrative of a conflict that claimed over 3,500 lives and caused deep emotional scarring to thousands of people.
Using recently released archival material from the BBC and a variety of government archives, the book addresses the contentious relationship between broadcasting officials, politicians, the army, police and civil service from the outbreak of violence throughout the 1980s. -- .
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:296 pages, 32 black & white illustrations
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:16/03/2017
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- ISBN:9781526116888
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:296 pages, 32 black & white illustrations
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:16/03/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781526116888