1st Edition
Bad News (Routledge Revivals)
By Peter Beharrell, Howard Davis, John Eldridge, John Hewitt, Jean Hart, Gregg Philo, Paul Walton, Brian Winston
Copyright 1976
330 Pages
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Routledge
330 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
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Routledge
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It is a commonly held belief that television news in Britain, on whatever channel, is more objective, more trustworthy, more neutral than press reporting. The illusion is exploded in this controversial study by the Glasgow University Media Group, originally published in 1976.
The authors undertook an exhaustive monitoring of all television broadcasts over 6 months, from January to June 1975,... Read more
1. Reviewing the News 2. Constructing the Project 3. Inside the Television Newsroom 4. Measure for Measure 5. Contours of Coverage 6. Trade Unions and the Media 7. Down to Cases
Biography
Peter Beharrell, Howard Davis, John Eldridge, John Hewitt, Jean Hart, Gregg Philo, Paul Walton, Brian Winston
‘The book deserves close study and establishes the fact that a value-free, "neutral" and exhaustively informative news is a myth’ - Times Educational Supplement
