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Record Nr.

UNISA996205988503316

Autore

Seymour-Ure Colin <1938->

Titolo

Prime ministers and the media : issues of power and control / / Colin Seymour-Ure

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Pub., , [2003]

©2003

ISBN

1-281-32247-4

9786611322472

0-470-70003-3

0-470-75342-0

0-470-75194-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Disciplina

070.4/493209/41

Soggetti

Press and politics - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Great Britain Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prime Ministers and the Media: Issues of Power and Control; Contents; List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Tables; Preface; Introduction: Prime Minister, Communication, Power, Control; 1 Public Communication and the Prime Minister's Tasks; 2 Public Communication as a Prime Ministerial Resource; 3 Public Communication: Turning Authority into Power; 4 The Capital City as News Environment; 5 Harlots Revisited: Media Barons, Politics and Prime Ministers; 6 The Rise of the Downing Street Press Secretary; 7 The Downing Street Press Secretary: Getting into a Spin?

8 Prime Ministers and Press Conferences9 Grapevine Politics: Political Rumours; 10 Drawing Blood? Prime Ministers and Political Cartoons; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book looks at the ways in which prime ministers manage and fail to manage their public communication.A timely examination of the ways in which prime ministers manage and fail to manage their public communication. Original in scope, covering political rumours, political cartoons and capital cities, in addition to more familiar topics. Sets



contemporary analysis of Downing Street press secretaries, media barons and press conferences in fuller historical context than usual. Draws on public records, private papers and interviews by the author dating bac