The Media and the Making of History by John Theobald

The Media and the Making of History by John Theobald

Author:John Theobald [Theobald, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Media Studies
ISBN: 9781351885850
Google: nKpBDgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02T03:25:17+00:00


Chapter 7

Acting as if … Resistance to Dominant Discourses of Anti-Communism and Nuclear Escalation in the 1980s

We must commence to act as if a united, neutral and pacific Europe already exists. We must learn to be loyal, not to ‘East’ or ‘West’, but to each other, and we must disregard the prohibitions and limitations imposed by any national state (Appeal for European Nuclear Disarmament 1980).

The people of this country have been made dull and stupid by a diet of Official Information. But they are not all that stupid, and there is still a risk […] that they might remember who they are, and become ‘turbulent’ before the war even got started (E.P. Thompson 1980).

The only way to contest the worst case is to envisage a better case, and then to summon up all our forces to work to bring that better case about (E.P. Thompson 1980).



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