{"id":1072,"date":"2017-06-05T15:36:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T14:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/crcc\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2017-06-06T08:04:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T07:04:34","slug":"tories-come-media-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/crcc\/general-election\/tories-come-media-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tories come under media attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Top 3 Talking Points: Newspapers turn on Theresa May - Election Media Analysis\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FpTplZ62qVs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"press-release-item__standfirst\">The Conservative Party has received considerably more negative media coverage in the second half of the General Election campaign, research from Loughborough University has found.<!--more--><\/p>\n<section class=\"press-release-item__content editor\">In its third report analysing media coverage of the campaign, the research team found the party coming under substantial attack for its \u2018dementia tax\u2019 and the way the issue was handled by Theresa May.It also found the Tory\u2019s had lost control of the issue agenda with health and healthcare \u2013 a key Labour policy \u2013 becoming the most covered substantive issue.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1056\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1056\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1056\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/crcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/image009.png\" alt=\"Figure 4.1: Top 5 Policy Issues in the 2017 Campaign\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/crcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/image009.png 600w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/crcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/image009-300x208.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 4.1: Top 5 Policy Issues in the 2017 Campaign<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Although the majority of media coverage for Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party has continued to be critical, the gap between negative and positive coverage has diminished in the second half of the campaign, suggesting Labour is gaining momentum with some media.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1055\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/crcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/image008.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/crcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/image008.png 601w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/crcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/image008-300x181.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the findings of the team\u2019s final report, co-author Professor John Downey said: \u201cOur research clearly shows that the Conservative Party are losing control of the media war. Not only are Labour&#8217;s issues more prominent but the Conservatives and May have received much more criticism. Time will tell if this is merely a wobble or something more serious for Conservative Party fortunes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Results in the report are derived from detailed content analysis of weekday news coverage of the General Election, compiled by experts in Loughborough University\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/crcc\/general-election\/\">Centre for Research in Communication and Culture<\/a>\u00a0(CRCC).This week\u2019s report also revealed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As a general trend, newspapers have focused more coverage on attacking the parties they disapprove of than on reporting positive issues connected to the parties they support. There has been considerable coverage of \u2018political gaffes\u2019 and \u2018Omni-shambles\u2019 such as policy U-turns and failing to have facts to hand during interviews.<\/li>\n<li>In the aftermath of the Manchester bombing defence issues rose greatly in prominence, as did the prominence of Amber Rudd, Home Secretary, and Diane Abbott, her Shadow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Conservative Party has received considerably more negative media coverage in the second half of the General Election campaign, research from Loughborough University has found.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-election"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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