TY - BOOK AU - Curran,James AU - Gaber,Ivor AU - Petley,Julian TI - Culture wars: the media and the British left T2 - Communication and society SN - 9781138223035 (pbk.) : U1 - 306.2'0941'09045 23 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Social change KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Political culture KW - Social values KW - Conflict of generations KW - Political aspects KW - Press and politics KW - Mass media KW - Society KW - eflch KW - ukslc N1 - Previous edition: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005; Specialized N2 - 'Culture Wars' investigates the relationship between the media and politics in Britain today. It focuses on how significant sections of the national press have represented and distorted the policies of the Labour Party, and particularly its left, from the Thatcher era up to and including Ed Miliband's and Jeremy Corbyn's leaderships. Revised and updated, including five brand new chapters, this second edition shows how press hostility to the left, particularly newspaper coverage of its policies on race, gender and sexuality, has morphed into a more generalised campaign against 'political correctness', the 'liberal elite' and the so-called 'enemies of the people' ER -