Understanding Journalism: A Guide to Issues

✍ Scribed by John Wilson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 319
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Never has the media been so critically regarded as at the present time. Documenting many areas of debate and dispute between journalists, the media, public organizations and politicians, the author identifies why conflicts will continue. Covering topics from government bias to censorship, official secrets to freedom of information and animal rights to obscenity, this highly informative work is a valuable guide to all those involved in journalism and the media.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
contents......Page 8
preface......Page 14
chapter one – the contest......Page 16
chapter two – regulators......Page 25
chapter three – editorial values......Page 43
chapter four – trouble spots......Page 96
chapter five – violent events......Page 134
chapter six – special treatment......Page 151
chapter seven – disputed practices......Page 171
chapter eight – politics......Page 185
chapter nine – state interests......Page 222
chapter ten – the public......Page 247
chapter eleven – social values......Page 265
chapter twelve – regional values......Page 279
chapter thirteen – the law......Page 286
index......Page 311