More Bad News (Routledge Revivals: Vol. 2)

By: Peter Beharrell and Howard Davis and John Eldridge and John Hewitt and Jean Hart and Gregg Philo and Paul Walton and Brian Winston

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Synopsis: First published in 1980, More Bad News is the Second Volume in the research findings of the Glasgow University Media Group. It develops the analytic findings and methods of the first volume Bad News through a series of Case Studies of Television News Coverage, and argues that much of what passes as balanced and factual news reporting is produced from a highly partial viewpoint. Focusing on the British economy in crisis, and its thematic linkage with the Social Contract during the first four months of 1975, the book deals with three main levels of activity: the story, the language and the visuals. As the book unpacks each level of routine news coverage a picture emerges which has the surface appearance of neutrality and balance but is in fact highly partial and restricted

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 484 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781135176136
Related ISBNs:: 9780203092644, 9780415563772, 9780415567909
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 08/21/20
Copyrighted By:: Glasgow University Media Group
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies
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