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Prime Ministers and the Media: Issues of Power and Control
Colin Seymour-Ure
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Description for Prime Ministers and the Media: Issues of Power and Control
Paperback. Issues of power and control - the endless efforts of political leaders to be understood as they would like - lie at the core of this revealing study. At a time when media saturate politics, how - and how successfully - can prime ministers manage their public communication? Num Pages: 288 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFD; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 424.
This book looks at the ways in which prime ministers manage and fail to manage their public communication.
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 back to the 1960s.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
282
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631187677
SKU
V9780631187677
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99-50
About Colin Seymour-Ure
Colin Seymour-Ure has been researching and writing about political communication and mass media since the 1960s. He is Emeritus Professor of Government and former Dean of Social Sciences at the University of Kent, Canterbury. His publications include The British Press and Broadcasting since 1945 (Blackwell Publishing, second edition 1996) and a biography of the cartoonist David Low (1985). He is ... Read more
Reviews for Prime Ministers and the Media: Issues of Power and Control
"This is a fascinating, authoritative and eminently readable history of the changing relationship between prime ministers and the media. As one of the country’s leading historians of politics and the press, Colin Seymour-Ure offers some highly original insights in a book which should be required reading for anyone with an interest in politics or political communication." Steven Barnett, University of ... Read more