Government-media relations
What Government-media relations means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Media reportage, including the BBC's Andrew Gilligan alleging the September dossier was 'sexed up', fractured government-media relations.
The US government's relationship with the media, contrasting the Vietnam War with the First Gulf War.
Topics that use Government-media relations
- Paper 3, Option 37.1: The changing nature of warfare, 1859–1991: perception and reality - 2 Attempts to influence the public response to war (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
- Paper 3, Option 39.2: Mass media and social change in Britain, 1882–2004 - 5 The Labour government versus the media: the problem of the Iraq dossiers, 2002–04 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Alastair Campbell
- Andrew Gilligan
- Anti-German propaganda
- Conscription and dissent
- Dr David Kelly
- Media and briefings
- Media scrutiny and investigative journalism
- Propaganda and censorship
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