This is a study of how the Northern Ireland conflict was presented to an increasingly global audience during the premiership of Britain''s ''Iron Lady'', Margaret Thatcher. It addresses the tensions that characterized the relationship between the broadcast media and the Thatcher Government throughout the 1980s. Robert J. Savage explores how that tension worked its way into decisions made by managers, editors, and reporters addressing a conflict that seemed insoluble. Margaret Thatcher mistrusted the broadcast media, especially the BBC, believing it had a left-wing bias that was hostile to her interests and policies. This was especially true of the broadcast media''s reporting about Northern Ireland. She regarded investigative reporting that explored the roots of republican violence in the region or coverage critical of her government''s initiatives as undermining the rule of law, and thereby providing terrorists with what she termed the ''oxygen of publicity''.She followed in the foots
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