SOCIAL, POLITICAL, HISTORICAL, CULTURAL CONTEXT QUOTATIONS

Quotations from Fake News vs New Media (J. McDougall)

  • Can be applied to CSPs:
    • Maybelline “That Boss Life”
    • Hidden Figures
    • Common – Letter to the Free
    • Word of the Worlds Radio programme
  • “There are always points historically where populations have been discontented or economic hardships have been exacerbated”
  • “The government were selling it politically through manifestos, through political speeches, the usual kind of forums where the speech of a minister is reported by The Times”
  • “We know ordinary people acquired their knowledge of understanding from the news from in the 1930s from cinema newsreels first and foremost”
  • “The British are very concerned at this point in terms of their external propaganda…”