Mass Media, Politics and Democracy

Mass Media, Politics and Democracy provides a broad overview of all aspects of the relationship between the media and politics. Drawing its examples from a wide range of developed liberal democracies, the book combines an accessible account of the political impact and regulation of the mass media today with an assessment of the democratic potential and anti-democratic dangers of new media technologies.

John Street is Reader in Politics, University of East Anglia.

Acknowledgements

ix

Introduction

1

(14)

PART ONE REPRESENTING POLITICS

Political bias

15

(21)

Telling tales: the reporting of politics

36

(24)

It's just for fun: politics and entertainment

60

(20)

Media effects

80

(23)

PART TWO THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MASS MEDIA

State control and state propaganda

103

(21)

Conglomerate control: media moguls and media power

124

(21)

Watchdogs or lapdogs? The politics of journalism

145

(18)

Dream worlds: globalization and the webs of power

163

(22)

PART THREE MASS MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY

Packaging politics

185

(27)

Remote control

212

(19)

Power and mass media

231

(19)

A free press: democracy and mass media

250

(23)

Conclusion

273

(5)

Bibliography

278

(16)

Index

294

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