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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816264503321

Titolo

Bad news / / Glasgow University Media Group

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-17613-2

1-135-17614-0

1-282-44372-0

9786612443725

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (409 p.)

Collana

Routledge revivals

Disciplina

070.19

302.23450941

Soggetti

Television broadcasting of news - Great Britain

Broadcast journalism - Great Britain

Journalism - Objectivity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1980 by Routledge and Kegan Paul Limited.

Vol. 2 has title: More bad news.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title01; Copyright01; Title02; Copyright02; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Reporting the Economic Crisis and the Social Contract: A Case Study; 1 Introduction: The Economic Background; 2 Wages and Prices Figures; 3 From Diagnosis to Prescription; 4 Pointing the Finger: Evaluations and Judgments; 5 'Who Gets On?': Conclusion; Part II Hear It This Way; 6 News Ideology: Neutrality and Naturalism; 7 Assembling the News Text; 8 News Talk: Vocabulary and Industrial Action; Part III See It This Way; 9 Measuring the Visuals; 10 Halting the Flow; 11 'Good Evening'

12 Still Life13 'Truth 24 Times a Second'-25 Times for Television; Conclusion: Ritual Tasks; Appendix A: Just One Week; Appendix B: Identifying Explanatory Themes; Appendix C: The Events of Sunday 11 May-Saturday 17 May 1975; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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: th