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The Origins of Modern Spin. Democratic Government and the Media in Britain, 1945-51.
M. Moore
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Description for The Origins of Modern Spin. Democratic Government and the Media in Britain, 1945-51.
Paperback. This book disputes the notion that information management is a recent phenomenon. It traces its origins to the period 1945-1951, when the post-war Labour government moved from an idealistic commitment to open communication towards the pragmatic relationship with the media with which we are now familiar. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; JFD; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Virtually every government communication in a modern democracy is formulated and evaluated in the context of spin. Based on original, archival research, this book explodes the notion that information management is a recent phenomenon.
Virtually every government communication in a modern democracy is formulated and evaluated in the context of spin. Based on original, archival research, this book explodes the notion that information management is a recent phenomenon.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349542147
SKU
V9781349542147
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99-15
About M. Moore
MARTIN MOORE is Director of the Media Standards Trust. He was formerly Managing Director of Human Capital where he provided strategic and editorial advice to the BBC, Channel 4, NTL, IPC Media, Trinity Mirror and others. He holds a doctorate from LSE where he was teaching and researching until 2006.
Reviews for The Origins of Modern Spin. Democratic Government and the Media in Britain, 1945-51.
'Moore successfully interweaves context and human action, illuminating both the circumstances in which a continuous government management of information could emerge, and the human choices and lobbyings which caused it to do so... Moore has with great clarity and thoroughness charted one important moment in the accommodation of British political parties to the practice of high minded deviousness that Max ... Read more