{"id":52723,"date":"2018-08-05T15:22:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T13:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/08\/05\/media-coverage-of-ukip-helped-to-increase-its-support-study-says\/"},"modified":"2018-08-05T15:22:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T13:22:57","slug":"media-coverage-of-ukip-helped-to-increase-its-support-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=52723","title":{"rendered":"Media coverage of Ukip helped to increase its support, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newspaper coverage aided Ukip\u2019s poll ratings, research shows \u2013 but effect was minimalDisproportionate British newspaper coverage of Ukip helped to increase support for the party, according to a new academic study, amid a growing debate on the role the media plays in boosting the popularity of anti-immigrant political parties. Political scientists at the University of Southampton investigated whether increased media coverage of Ukip caused support for the pro-Brexit party to rise \u2013 or whether the opposite is true, and increased public support for Ukip prompted the media to dedicate more space to the party. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/aug\/05\/media-coverage-of-ukip-helped-to-increase-its-support-study-says\" target=\"_blank\">Media coverage of Ukip helped to increase its support, study says<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newspaper coverage aided Ukip\u2019s poll ratings, research shows \u2013 but effect was minimalDisproportionate British newspaper coverage of Ukip helped to increase support for the party, according to a new academic study, amid a growing debate on the role the media plays in boosting the popularity of anti-immigrant political parties. Political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}