General Election 2015: The Media Campaign Report 1 (covering 30th March-8th April inclusive) Introduction This is the first of a series of weekly reports by the Loughborough University Communication Research Centre on national news reporting of the 2015 UK General Election. See our blog for more details about this project (https://blog.lboro.ac.uk/general-election/.) The results in this […]
Read moreThe General Election is now in full swing and the recent seven-way leaders’ debate has fuelled media interest in this most unpredictable of contests. The Communication Research Centre will be publishing the first of its ‘real time’ analyses of news reporting of the election on Monday 13 April. Our media monitoring started with the dissolution […]
Read moreFor the remainder of the campaign, Loughborough University Communication Research Centre will produce a series of reports about news coverage of the 2015 General Election. The first report will be made publicly available on Monday 13 April. The reports will provide commentary about the week’s coverage and systematic measurements of Which politicians and parties received most coverage […]
Read moreThe 2015 Leaders’ Debate was a markedly different affair to the first ever debates held in the 2010 General Election. Five years ago the platform was limited to three representatives of parties who were each comfortably attracting at least a quarter of the electorate’s support. Now seven politicians, four of who lead parties currently polling […]
Read moreRecent events have put a new spin on the old saying: ‘if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen’. First, Ed Miliband was ridiculed for being photographed in an austere kitchen that turned out to be his spare one. Then David Cameron made a kitchen-based confession to the BBC that he would […]
Read moreThe Man in the White Suit In 1997 Martin Bell, BBC war reporter, became ‘the man in the white suit’. At the behest of Alistair Campbell Bell stood as an independent candidate in Tatton, one of the safest Conservative seats in the country, and trounced Neil Hamilton, who was embroiled in the so-called ‘cash for […]
Read moreA journalistic cliché we’re likely to hear a great deal more- and it has already been said- is that this General Election is the most important in a generation. But it is often difficult to gauge the significance of a particular election until sometime after the event. What is not in doubt is the […]
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