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Getting the message : news, truth and power

Title
Getting the message : news, truth and power / Glasgow University Media Group ; edited by John Eldridge.
Author
Glasgow University Media Group.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.

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Additional Authors
Eldridge, J. E. T. (John Eric Thomas)
Description
viii, 358 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm
Summary
The work of the Glasgow Media Group has long been established as being at the forefront of media studies. This collection is an ideal introduction to their recent work.
Series Statement
Communication and society
Uniform Title
Communication and society (Routledge (Firm))
Subject
  • Mass media
  • Journalism
  • Journalism
  • mass media
  • journalism
  • 05.30 mass communication and mass media: general
  • Mass media
  • Berichterstattung
  • Information
  • Massenmedien
  • Nachricht
  • Nachrichtenwesen
  • Öffentliche Meinung
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Nieuwsvoorziening
  • Mass media > Political aspects
  • Television broadcasting of news
  • Journalism > Objectivity
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • 1. News, truth and power / John Eldridge -- 2. Media research: whose agenda? / Howard H. Davis -- 3. Reform and restructuring in the Soviet media: before and after the August 1991 coup / Brian McNair -- 4. The Northern Ireland Information Service and the media: aims, strategy, tactics / David Miller -- 5. From Buerk to Band Aid: the media and the 1984 Ethiopian famine / Greg Philo -- 6. Negotiating HIV/AIDS information: agendas, media strategies and the news / David Miller and Kevin Williams -- 7. Backyard on the front page: the case of Nicaragua / Lucinda Broadbent -- 8. The CBS Evening News, 7 April 1949: creating an ineffable television form / Brian Winston -- 9. AIDS and the British press / Peter Beharrell -- 10. Getting the message: audience research in the Glasgow University Media Group / Greg Philo -- 11. Understanding AIDS: researching audience perceptions of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome / Jenny Kitzinger.
  • 12. The light at the end of the tunnel: the mass media, public opinion and the Vietnam War / Kevin Williams -- 13. Whose illusion? whose reality? some problems of theory and method in mass media research / John Eldridge.
ISBN
  • 0415079837
  • 9780415079839
  • 0415079845
  • 9780415079846
  • 9780203397404
  • 0203397401
LCCN
92026616
OCLC
  • ocm26402692
  • 26402692
  • SCSB-1990163
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library