Add to ORKGThe widespread use of disinformation in the run-up to the British EU-referendum in 2016 has been extensively criticised. This chapter investigates falsehoods in the British media coverage of European affairs reaching back to the early 1990s. Between 1992 and 2017, the European Commission documented and debunked falsehoods in British news stories, which they called “Euromyths”. Using critical discourse analysis, selected sample texts from a corpus of 334 Euromyths are analysed. Drawing on Roland Barthes’ mythology the chapter finds that the disinformation in Euromyths news stories supported and was supported by a eurosceptic ideology that helped the falsehoods prevail against even repeated factchecks. Thus, since the 1990s British news stori...
The purpose of this study is to examine whether the European Union’s (EU) eurocrisis forms of tradit...
This article aims to show how the power of the press and its ‘accepted’ Eurosceptic bias put Tony Bl...
Exposure to fake news stories can result in false memories for the events portrayed, and this effect...
The widespread use of disinformation in the run-up to the British EU-referendum in 2016 has been ext...
This book offers a new approach to understanding disinformation and its destructive impact on the de...
After the British people voted for Brexit in June 2016, the role the media played was intensely deba...
The British press has been reporting a uniquely distorted image of European affairs and institutions...
This article studies one of the key-metaphors that has dominated British EU debates for the past 25 ...
The United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union and the possibility of it, has been discusse...
The Eurozone financial crisis was widely seen as a challenge to the legitimacy of the European Union...
This paper investigates a critical discourse analysis the author has conducted of UK mainstream news...
From the opinion-swinging British tabloids which have become synonymous with anti-EU sentiment, espe...
Support for the European Union within the UK has traditionally been lower than in other European cou...
The 2016 EU referendum has already left a lasting imprint on the English language. Building on previ...
The explosion of European Union (EU) authority and the progress made toward European integration in ...
The purpose of this study is to examine whether the European Union’s (EU) eurocrisis forms of tradit...
This article aims to show how the power of the press and its ‘accepted’ Eurosceptic bias put Tony Bl...
Exposure to fake news stories can result in false memories for the events portrayed, and this effect...
The widespread use of disinformation in the run-up to the British EU-referendum in 2016 has been ext...
This book offers a new approach to understanding disinformation and its destructive impact on the de...
After the British people voted for Brexit in June 2016, the role the media played was intensely deba...
The British press has been reporting a uniquely distorted image of European affairs and institutions...
This article studies one of the key-metaphors that has dominated British EU debates for the past 25 ...
The United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union and the possibility of it, has been discusse...
The Eurozone financial crisis was widely seen as a challenge to the legitimacy of the European Union...
This paper investigates a critical discourse analysis the author has conducted of UK mainstream news...
From the opinion-swinging British tabloids which have become synonymous with anti-EU sentiment, espe...
Support for the European Union within the UK has traditionally been lower than in other European cou...
The 2016 EU referendum has already left a lasting imprint on the English language. Building on previ...
The explosion of European Union (EU) authority and the progress made toward European integration in ...
The purpose of this study is to examine whether the European Union’s (EU) eurocrisis forms of tradit...
This article aims to show how the power of the press and its ‘accepted’ Eurosceptic bias put Tony Bl...
Exposure to fake news stories can result in false memories for the events portrayed, and this effect...