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

  • Jon Silverman
Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter Peer-review

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.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 85-103

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/01/2013

Publication status

Published - 01/01/2013

Place of publication

Bern, Switzerland

Publisher

Peter Lang

Publication series

  • Publication series name: Journalism, Politics and New Media

ISBN (Print)

9783034309042

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/623644

Host publication title

Breaking the News

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