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Press protest and publics: the agency of publics in newspaper campaigns (2010)
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Birks, J. (2010). Press protest and publics: the agency of publics in newspaper campaigns. Discourse and Communication, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/1750481309353285

Campaign advocacy is a common but rarely researched practice in British tabloid journalism. Newspaper campaigns give an account of ‘public opinion’ to politicians, make explicit claims to speak for ‘the public’ and authentically represent them, and... Read More about Press protest and publics: the agency of publics in newspaper campaigns.