Media Power, Professionals and Policies

by Tumber,Howard; Tumber,Howard

• ISBN13: 9780415196697
• ISBN10: 0415196698
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-06-14
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of tables	x
List of contributors	xi
Introduction	1	(1)
Academic at Work	1	(16)
Howard Tumber
PART I Media policy	17	(80)
Media policy: premature obsequies?	19	(16)
Denis McQuail
Press reformism 1918-98: a study of failure	35	(21)
James Curran
US communications industry ownership and the 1996 Telecommunications Act: watershed or unintended consequences?	56	(14)
Christopher H. Sterling
Power and policy in the British music industry	70	(14)
Simon Frith
British press and privacy	84	(13)
Hugh Stephenson
PART II Media power and democracy	97	(52)
The nation and communicative space	99	(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