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'Real News about the News examines the conventional wisdom about the role of the media in contemporary British politics - and often shows the conventional wisdom is inaccurate. Newton uses diverse evidence to test claims of citizens' limited information, media silos, the impact of fake news, media agenda-setting, media malaise and other topics. This is a thoughtful, well-written and well-documented study that should make us rethink many of our views about the contemporary mass media in Britain and other affluent democracies.' Russell J. Dalton, University of California, Irvine 'To assess the power of the media to shape public opinion and politics, start here! Kenneth Newton's up-to-date review of what we know - and don't know - about the impact of news media on public opinion in Britain is essential reading. Thorough and well written, fearless and frank, this book is a gem.' Michael Schudson, Professor of Journalism and Sociology, Columbia University

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Kenneth Newton is Professor Emeritus at Southampton University. He served as Executive Director of the ECPR and as a member of the Executive of IPSA and the PSA UK. His research publications cover social and political trust, democratic innovations, city politics and media politics and he is the co-author of Foundations of Comparative Politics (4th edition, with Jan van Deth, Cambridge 2021).

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