The European Union’s ideal of unity has crashed against the emergence of the sociopolitical Euroscepticism in a number of its member states; a process whose maximum manifestation so far has been the British vote for leaving the EU in 2016. In this scenario, the role of the media is crucial, since they control the way in which the facts are communicated, swaying public opinion to be more or less supportive of the Union. Aiming at finding out how Brexit-related events were covered by the British media from the day of the referendum until the moment when the UK officially exited the bloc, this thesis applies Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to the texts present in the main article published online by the three most popular newspapers in the country—The Daily Mail, The Mirror and The Sun—on four key dates: June 23, 2016, when the Britain public voted in a referendum to leave the European Union; March 29, 2017, when UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, hand delivered a letter, formally beginning Britain’s exit from the EU; December 13, 2019, when the Conservative Party won the early general elections called by the Prime Minister Boris Johnson to finish the prolonged parliamentary deadlock over Brexit; and January 31, 2020, when the UK formally left the Union. This piece of research concludes that the dailies, especially those with an anti-EU editorial line (The Daily Mail and The Sun), used this information as a tool of sociopolitical indoctrination.
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