Westminster Tales

The Twenty-first-Century Crisis in Political Journalism

AvSteven Barnett,Ivor Gaber

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001

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Beskrivning

Politics today is inextricably bound to the media, indeed it is now a routine assumption that the media can determine election outcomes. Consequently, over the last 20 years, the conduct of politics has become increasingly driven by what might "play well" on televison or in the press. Not just election campaigning, but other major political platforms including by-elections, budgets, party conferences and set piece speeches have become dominated by media considerations. This is a book about how that relationship works in practice. What sort of deals are done between politicians and journalists? What tactics do politicians use to try and manipulate the media? What are journalists' techniques of resistance? What determines how a campaign is put together? Have policy issues and the national good really been surrendered to image-making and sound-bite tactics? This book examines the modern process of political communication through the eyes of the many different actors who are now involved.Through their own experience, and through personal interviews conducted with many of the key media and political figures, the authors construct a vivid picture of how political communication is managed today and the direction in which it is going.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-04-26
Mått:161 x 240 x 14 mm
Vikt:360 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:156
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780826450210

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Professor of Communications at the University of Westminster, UK, who has specialized in media policy and politics for more than 20 years. Steven Barnett is Professor of Communications at the University of Westminster, UK, and a prominent writer and broadcaster who has been involved in policy analysis at the highest levels, both nationally and internationally, for the last 25 years. Steven Barnett is senior lecturer in communications at University of Westminster, and the author of three books on the media. Ivor Gaber is Professor of Journalism at the University of Sussex, UK. He is an internationally acknowledged expert on the relationship between politics and the media. Before entering academia he was a political journalist at the BBC, ITV, Channel Four and Sky News and is now an Independent Editorial Adviser to the BBC Trust.

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"Because Steven Barnett and Ivor Gaber both know a lot about British broadcasting, another strength of their book is its useful account of the major political broadcasting controversies of the 1990s." --The Times Higher Education Supplement

Innehållsförteckning

The crisis in political journalism; public opinion and the impact of political journalism; the contours of political coverage; broadcasters and political communications; the consequences of capitalism; does ownership matter?; controlling the news agenda: the politician's reposnse; raising the game: the Government Machine; the changing reporting environment; conclusion - reforming political news production.