Abstract
This paper is an examination of discourses challenging the myth of ‘gambling’ as a form of urban regeneration in Great Britain.
The focus is primarily on the Daily Mail, which has continually waged a successful media campaign to “Kill the Casino Bill”
and constructed a powerful public condemnation of gambling as regenerative. From an analysis of 156 gambling articles from
January 2004 to December 2010 common and recurring themes emerged to dismiss gambling as a form of regeneration. These were
gambling as immoral, criminal and pathological. These helped shaped discourses around which the debate on gambling was framed
and structured.
The focus is primarily on the Daily Mail, which has continually waged a successful media campaign to “Kill the Casino Bill”
and constructed a powerful public condemnation of gambling as regenerative. From an analysis of 156 gambling articles from
January 2004 to December 2010 common and recurring themes emerged to dismiss gambling as a form of regeneration. These were
gambling as immoral, criminal and pathological. These helped shaped discourses around which the debate on gambling was framed
and structured.
- Content Type Journal Article
- Category Review Paper
- Pages 1-11
- DOI 10.1007/s10899-011-9276-7
- Authors
- Graham Brooks, Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, PO1 2HY UK
- Journal Journal of Gambling Studies
- Online ISSN 1573-3602
- Print ISSN 1050-5350