1st Edition
Spinning for Labour: Trade Unions and the New Media Environment
By Paul Manning
Copyright 1998
413 Pages
by
Routledge
413 Pages
by
Routledge
413 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1998, this volume asks: are groups or organisations beyond the sphere of Westminster politics doomed to be marginalised in mainstream news coverage, or can the currently fashionable emphasis upon media techniques and 'spin doctoring' offer such non-official news sources a means of securing media success?. This question is now surfacing as a major issue within politics and... Read more
1. Introduction: Trade Unions and their ‘Enemies Front Line Troops’. 2. Trade Unions: Structure, Power, Ideology and Communications. 3. Briefing for the Union: the Practice of Trade Union Press Officers and their Internal Union Environment. 4. Press Officers, Correspondents and the ‘Inside Track’. 5. The Rise of Labour and Industrial Journalism. 6. Decline in the Fortunes of Labour Journalism. 7. Union News and Communication Work: the Journalists’ Perspective. 8. Representations of Labour. 9. Conclusion.
Biography
Paul Manning
