Media Power, Professionals and Policies

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ISBN: 9780415196680 | 041519668X
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 6/14/2000

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The work of Jeremy Tunstall, one of the founding fathers of British media studies, is the inspiration behind Media Power, Professionals and Policies . In this collection of new work, leading international contributors address the central themes of Tunstall's work; the history, structures and practices of the international media industry, the relationship between media and government, and the sociology of labour in the media industry.

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Introduction

(1)

Academic at Work

(16)

Howard Tumber

PART I Media policy

(80)

Media policy: premature obsequies?

(16)

Denis McQuail

Press reformism 1918-98: a study of failure

(21)

James Curran

US communications industry ownership and the 1996 Telecommunications Act: watershed or unintended consequences?

(14)

Christopher H. Sterling

Power and policy in the British music industry

(14)

Simon Frith

British press and privacy

(13)

Hugh Stephenson

PART II Media power and democracy

(52)

The nation and communicative space

(17)

Philip Schlesinger

Digitised capitalism: what has changed?

116

(11)

Herbert I. Schiller

The late arrival of television research: a case study in the production of knowledge

127

(22)

David E. Morrison

PART III Media management

149

(58)

Prime ministers' and presidents' news operations: what effects on the job?

151

(16)

Colin Seymour-Ure

Political advertising at the end of the twentieth century

167

(11)

Winston Fletcher

Cultural policing in the early eighteenth century: print, politics and the case of William Rayner

178

(12)

Michael Harris

Conflicts in the news: publicity interests, public images and political impacts

190

(17)

Rodney Tiffen

PART IV Media professionals

207

(72)

Conflicts of interest: newsworkers, media, and patronage journalism

209

(16)

Hanno Hardt

The Washington reporters redux, 1978-98

225

(11)

Stephen Hess

Newspaper power: a practitioner's account

236

(11)

David Walker

The print journalist, UK and Africa

247

(12)

Rex Winsbury

The interview in management research: a cautionary tale for journalists

259

(20)

Stuart MacDonald

Bo Hellgren

PART V International media and global identity

279

(53)

The historian and the news agency: present thoughts on past performance

281

(14)

Michael Palmer

How Americans view the world: media images and public knowledge

295

(19)

Kurt Lang

Gladys Engel Lang

Pan-Arab satellite television: the dialectics of identity

314

(18)

Oliver Boyd-Barrett

Index

332

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