This book proposes a series of reforms that could improve the media and politics, and the interaction of the two, in Britain. This book makes an important contribution to public debate in Britain about the relationship between the media and politics. Contributors include academics, journalists and political commentators.
This book proposes a series of reforms that could improve the media and politics, and the interaction of the two, in Britain. This book makes an important contribution to public debate in Britain about the relationship between the media and politics. Contributors include academics, journalists and political commentators.
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Autorenporträt
John Lloyd is a Contributing Editor to the Financial Times. He is a member of the editorial board of Prospect magazine, and of the Moscow School of Political Studies. He has won several top journalism awards and, in addition to TV and radio work, is a post editor of the New Statesmen and of Time Out. With others, he is creating the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. His most recent book is What The Media Are Doing To Our Politics.Jean Seaton is Professor of Media History at the University of Westminster and is on the board of Political Quarterly. She was official historian of the BBC for the 1980s, and is the author of Carnage and the Media (2005). Andrew Gamble and Tony Wright have also co-edited The New Social Democracy.
Inhaltsangabe
Notes on Contributors.
Introduction: Jean Seaton.
1. Hotting It Up: Jurgen Kronig.
2. The Virtues of an Unlovable Press: Michael Schudson.
3. The Epiphany of Joe Trippi: John Lloyd.
4. What's Good on Television?: Tim Gardam.
5. Can the BBC Invigorate our Political Culture?: StevenBarnett.
6. The Rise of the Ranters: Saving Political Journalism: PeterRiddell.
7. Morally Engaged: Reporters in Crises: Martin Woollacott.
8. Lacking a Clear Narrative: Foreign Reporting after the ColdWar: Suzanne Franks.
9. Digitising Democracy: Georgina Born.
10. Little Citizens: Children, the Media and Politics: JeanSeaton.
11. On the Cusp: Finding New Visions for Social Gain fromBroadcasting: Don Redding.
