300 Pages
by
Routledge
300 Pages
by
Routledge
300 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1991, The Stalker Affair and the Press documents the media treatment of police constable John Stalker’s removal from his job and argues that this case presents a major difficulty for the standard academic analysis of the press in Britain: namely that it supports the status quo because it is part of the dominant class system. The author argues that the exclusion of... Read more
1. Introduction: News sources and ideology 2. The structure of news 3. Reporting and investigating 4. Official reality: The Sampson report 5. The Stalkers as soap opera 6. ‘Tasty friends’ 7. Investigating the investigators 8. Sampson, the aftermath 9. James Anderton’s silent suffering 10. That was then 11. The trial of Kevin Taylor 12. Conclusions Notes and references Index
Biography
David Murphy
