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Seaton - Politics and the Media: Harlots and Prerogatives at the Turn of the Millennium - 9780631209416 - V9780631209416
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Politics and the Media: Harlots and Prerogatives at the Turn of the Millennium

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Description for Politics and the Media: Harlots and Prerogatives at the Turn of the Millennium Paperback. Spin doctor, soundbite, press secretary, digital, global village, cool Britannia. Politics today is saturated with the jargon and buzzwords of the mass media. Editor(s): Seaton, Jean. Series: Political Quarterly Monograph Series. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 170 x 9. Weight in Grams: 260.
Spin doctor, soundbite, press secretary, digital, global village, cool Britannia. Politics today is saturated with the jargon and buzzwords of the mass media.

How important are they for the way we are governed? How can the ever-expanding impact of the media be controlled? In this up-to-the-minute book, a group of Britain's best-known journalists and media analysts tackle one of the most testing issues facing the nation in the next century. Each essay focuses on the central role of newspapers, broadcasting and information technology in our political life.

Peter Riddell shows how the demands of the press and broadcasting have drained ... Read more

Edited by Jean Seaton (co-author of the classic media study Power Without Responsibility) this thought-provoking, intensely readable and often witty collection applies expertise and common sense to complex problems, and shows how dated many assumptions about the mass media have become.

The book is essential reading for students of the media and politics, as well as for journalists, politicians and all those concerned about the fast-changing role of mass communications in our democracy.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Condition
New
Series
Political Quarterly Monograph Series
Number of Pages
142
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631209416
SKU
V9780631209416
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Seaton
Jean Seaton is Professor of Media History at the University of Westminster and 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.

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