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Cats, convicts and clerics : how the media and politicians have framed the Human Rights Act

  • Jon Silverman

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Abstract

The chapter deals with a number of related episodes in which the media - tabloid and broadsheet newspapers - colluded with ministers to 'demonise' the Human Rights Act as part of a longer-term objective of de-legitimizing the UK's membership of the European Union. It takes a number of case studies to argue that a deliberate conflation of the HRA and European Court of Human Rights with the policies of the European Union helped breed support for an anti-EU agenda in UK public policy.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBreaking the News
Place of PublicationBern, Switzerland
PublisherPeter Lang
Pages85-103
ISBN (Print)9783034309042
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2013

Publication series

NameJournalism, Politics and New Media

Keywords

  • media
  • Media, Communication and Broadcasting
  • policy

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