From “Watchdog” to “Attackdog”: Media depictions of Jeremy Corbyn are an affront to democracy
DeCillia, B.
(2016).
From “Watchdog” to “Attackdog”: Media depictions of Jeremy Corbyn are an affront to democracy.
A healthy democracy requires a watchdog in its press — not an ‘attackdog’, ‘snarling’ and ‘barking’ at an elected politician. Yet this is how Jeremy Corbyn is being treated by the media, explains Brooks DeCillia. He outlines the findings of LSE research that show how the Leader of the Opposition is being delegitimased by the British press through distortion, ridicule, and association with terrorism.
| Item Type | Online resource |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2016 The Author(s) CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 |
| Departments | LSE |
| Date Deposited | 29 Mar 2017 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/71509 |