Research Catalog

Title

War and words : the Northern Ireland media reader / edited by Bill Rolston, David Miller.

Publication

Belfast : Beyond the Pale Publications, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rolston, Bill.
• Miller, David, 1964-

Description

xvii, 458 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Media Wars analyses the media coverage of the conflict in Ulster over the past twenty-seven years. The book presents revelations about the manufacture of propaganda by the British Army, and analyses censorship by the British and Irish governments.

Alternative Title

Northern Ireland media reader.

Subject

• British Broadcasting Corporation
• 1968-1998
• Violence in mass media
• Mass media and public opinion
• Journalism > Political aspects > Northern Ireland
• Journalism > Political aspects > Great Britain
• Journalism > Political aspects
• Mass media
• Berichterstattung
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Massamedia
• Geweld
• Noord-Ierland
• Publieke opinie
• Geschichte 1959-1996
• Northern Ireland > In mass media
• Northern Ireland > History > 1968-1998
• Great Britain
• Northern Ireland
• Nordirland

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

2BE consolidates: the early years of the BBC in Northern Ireland / Rex Cathcart -- Television coverage of Northern Ireland / Anthony Smith -- The BBC and the 1974 Ulster Workers' Council Strike / Robert Fisk -- Broadcasting to a community in conflict: the experience in Northern Ireland / Richard Francis -- Reporting Northern Ireland / Peter Taylor -- The reference upwards system / Liz Curtis -- The 'real lives' controversy / Michael Leapman -- Death on the rock / Roger Bolton -- BBC, Style guide, 1993 -- BBC, Guidelines for factual programmes, 1989 -- The army of PR men of Northern Ireland / Simon Hoggart -- Colin Wallace and the propaganda war / Paul Foot -- Still dark in paranoia gulch / Duncan Campbell -- Republican publicity / Liz Curtis -- The Northern Ireland Information Service and the media: aims, strategy, tactics / David Miller -- Political censorship / Bill Rolston -- The history behind a mistake / David Miller -- The silence in Irish broadcasting / Betty Purcell -- A catalogue of censorship 1959-1993 / Liz Curtis -- Reporting Republican violence / Liz Curtis -- The semantics of political violence / Peter Taylor -- The state and 'terrorism' on British television / Philip Elliott, Graham Murdock and Philip Schlesinger -- Covering the Northern crisis: the U.S. press and Northern Ireland / Jack Holland -- Mothers, whores and villians: images of women in novels of the Northern Ireland conflict / Bill Rolston -- Reporting the peace in Ireland / David Miller and Greg McLaughlin.

ISBN

• 1900960001
• 9781900960007

LCCN

97107744

OCLC

• ocm36162533
• 36162533
• SCSB-366515

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library