Format:
1 online resource (202 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781845403522
Series Statement:
Societas v.31
Content:
The aim of this book is to a launch a polemic for the freedom of the press against all of the attempts to police, defile and sanitise journalism today. Once the media reported the news. Now it makes it. From the phone-hacking scandal to rows about press regulation, super-injunctions, leaks, libel and privacy laws, the power of the Murdoch empire, and the future of the BBC, the media has become the story. The British press is in crisis and under scrutiny as never before. In the fall-out from the phone-hacking scandal one national newspaper has already been closed down and some would like to see others go the same way. However, this book argues that there is not too much media freedom in Britain today, but too little. There are not too few controls and restrictions on what can legitimately be published and broadcast, but too many - both formal and informal. Some newspapers in Britain and elsewhere might be going 'free' in financial terms, under pressure from declining sales and the n...
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Front matter -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Body matter -- 1: "I Believe in a Free Press, But…" -- 2: Whose Ethics Are They Anyway? -- 3: Fear and Loathing of the Popular -- 4: Why Blame "the Meejah"? -- 5: Here is the News: Journalism as Narcissism -- 6: Leveson's Mission - Purging the Press -- 7: Manifesto for a Free Press -- Back matter -- Other titles available from Imprint Academic and Andrews UK.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845403508
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781845403508
Language:
English
Keywords:
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