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IT’S THE SUN WOT WON IT the Sun proclaimed in the days following the election. The headline was a typical piece of Sun self-aggrandizement but there can be no doubt that the Conservative tabloids generally, and the Sun in particular, did a good propaganda job for the party in the last crucial week of the campaign.
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Useful work on the press published since 1987 includes: C. Seymour-Ure, The British Press and Broadcasting since 1945 (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991);
W. Miller, Media and Voters (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991);
R. Snoddy, The Good, the Bad and The Unacceptable (London: Faber and Faber, 1992);
P. Chippindale and C. Horrie, Disaster! The Rise and Fall of the News on Sunday (London: Sphere, 1988) and Stick It Up Your Punter: The Rise and Fall of The Sun (London: Heinemann, 1990);
R. Franklin and D. Murphy, What News? The Market, Politics and the Local Press (London: Routledge, 1991);
C. Wintour, The Rise and Fall of Fleet Street (London: Hutchinson, 1989);
R. Fowler, Language in the News: Discourse and Ideology (London: Routledge, 1991); and D. Sanders, D. Marsh and H. Ward, “The Political Impact of Press Coverage of the UK Economy, 1979–87’, British Journal of Political Science, forthcoming.
W. Miller, Media and Voters (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), p. 192.
W. Miller, Media and Voters; also M. Harrop, ‘Press Coverage of Post-war Elections’ in Political Communications: The General Election Campaign of 1983, ed. I. Crewe and M. Harrop (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 137–149.
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Harrop, M., Scammell, M. (1992). A Tabloid War. In: The British General Election of 1992. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230372092_9
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