Authors: Colin Seymour-Ure
ISBN-13: 9780631198833, ISBN-10: 0631198830
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: March 2002
Edition: REV
Colin Seymour-Ure is Professor of Government and Former Dean of Social Sciences at the University of Kent at Canterbury. His other books include The Press, Politics and the Public (1968); The Political Impact of Mass Media (1974); The American President: Power and Communication (1982) and a biography of the cartoonist David Low (1985).
This second edition of Colin Seymour-Ure's history of the press and broadcasting in post-war Britian offers a concise and fully up-to-date overview of the development of the media and its central role in British society.
List of Tables | ||
General Editor's Preface | ||
Preface to First edition | ||
Preface to Second edition | ||
1 | Snapshot: 1945/1995 | 1 |
2 | Which Media? What History? | 6 |
3 | Media 1945-1995: the Press | 16 |
4 | Media 1945-1995: Radio and Television | 59 |
5 | Media Empires: Concentration, Conglomeration, Internationalization | 118 |
6 | Content and Audiences | 138 |
7 | Media, Government and Politics: The Intrusion of Television | 179 |
8 | Media, Government and Politics: Prime Ministers and Parties | 201 |
9 | Media Accountability: Government Policymaking | 225 |
10 | Media Accountability: Markets, Self-Regulation and the Law | 241 |
Conclusion | 271 | |
Appendix: Provincial Evening Papers | 274 | |
Outline Chronology | 278 | |
Bibliography | 280 | |
Index | 285 |