History A-Level
Media compliance and resistance
What Media compliance and resistance means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Media compliance and resistance
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Compliance was encouraged by selective access and pressure, while the NUM and government both tried to control the narrative during the miners' strike.
Topics that use Media compliance and resistance
- Paper 3, Option 39.2: Mass media and social change in Britain, 1882–2004 - 4 The Thatcher governments and the media, 1979–90 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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