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Freemasonry and the Press in the Twentieth Century - A National Newspaper Study of England and Wales (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Freemasonry and the Press in the Twentieth Century - A National Newspaper Study of England and Wales (Hardcover, New Ed)
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By the end of the twentieth century, Freemasonry had acquired an
unsavoury reputation as a secretive network of wealthy men looking
out for each others' interests. The popular view is of an
organisation that, if not actually corrupt, is certainly viewed
with deep mistrust by the press and wider society. Yet, as this
book makes clear, this view contrasts sharply with the situation at
the beginning of the century when the public's perception of
Freemasonry in Britain was much more benevolent, with numerous
establishment figures (including monarchs, government ministers,
archbishops and civic worthies) enthusiastically recommending
Freemasonry as the key to model citizenship. Focusing particularly
on the role of the press, this book investigates the transformation
of the image of Freemasonry in Britain from respectability to
suspicion. It describes how the media projected a positive message
of the organisation for almost forty years, based on a mass of news
emanating from the organisation itself, before a change in public
regard occurred during the later twentieth-century. This change in
the public mood, the book argues, was due primarily to Masonic
withdrawal from the public sphere and a disengagement with the
press. Through an examination of the subject of Freemasonry and the
British press, a number of related social trends are addressed,
including the decline of deference, the erosion of privacy, greater
competition in the media, the emergence of more aggressive and
investigative journalism, the consequences of media isolation and
the rise of professional Public Relations. The book also
illuminates the organisation's collisions with nationalism,
communism, and state welfare provision. As such, the study is
illuminating not only for students of Freemasonry, but those with
an interest in the wider social history of modern Britain.
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