Power Without Responsibility: Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain

Cover
Half Title
Endorsement
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface to the ninth edition
About the Authors
Part I Press History
	Chapter 1 Press History as Political Mythology
		Afterlife
		Notes
	Chapter 2 The Struggle for a Free Press
		Rise of Radical Journalism
		The Economic Structure of the Radical Press
		The Impact of the Radical Press
		Notes
	Chapter 3 Janus Face of Reform
		Dividing Over Social Control
		Ambiguity of the Renewed Campaign
		Notes
	Chapter 4 Industrialisation of the Press
		The Freedom of Capital
		The New Licensing System: Advertising
		Impact of the Industrialised Press
		Notes
	Chapter 5 Era of the Press Barons
		Creation of Press Empires
		Press Barons and Proprietorial Control
		Profits and Politics
		Proprietors as Politicians
		Fourth Estate Myth
		Power of Press Barons
		Modification of Market Censorship
		Notes
	Chapter 6 Press Under Public Regulation
		Silencing the Communist Press
		The Defeat of Censorship
		Freedom From Market Censorship
		Radicalisation of Britain
		Anchoring a Public Mood
		Notes
	Chapter 7 Post-War Press: Fable of Progress
		Myth of Market Democracy
		Two Clients
		Newspaper Deaths
		De-radicalisation
		Increase of Entertainment
		Growing Gap
		Economic Corruption
		Myth of Disappearing Proprietor
		Limits of Bipartisanship
		Myth of Press Autonomy
		Erosion of Deference
		Attack On Post-War Establishment
		Notes
	Chapter 8 Press and the Remaking of Britain
		Building the New Establishment
		Centralisation of Power
		Interventionist Press Controllers
		Reinforcement
		Countervailing Influences
		Neo-liberal Gospel
		Pulled Punches
		War On the Poor
		Class Contempt
		Law and Order
		Migrant Invasion
		Rallying Behind the Flag
		Delegitimation of the Radical Left
		Failed Promise of the Print Revolution
		Second Technological Disruption
		Limits of Press Influence
		Direct Influence
		Mediated Influence
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 9 Moral Decline of the Press
		Change of Leadership
		Institutional Bullying
		Trade Identity
		Wrecking Lives
		Threat to Public Health
		Spreading Hatred
		Changing Norms
		Public Verdict
		Notes
Part II Broadcasting History
	Chapter 10 Reith and the Denial of Politics
		Beginnings
		Discovering an Audience, a Director and the Money
		The BBC as a Public Corporation
		The BBC and Political Independence
		The BBC and the General Strike
		Governments and the BBC in the 1930s
		The BBC, Society and Programmes
		The BBC and Journalism
		The BBC and Appeasement
		The BBC at the End of the Decade
		Notes
	Chapter 11 Broadcasting and the Blitz
		‘The People Will Break’
		The First Months of War
		Programme Changes
		1940 and Cheerful Patriotism
		Women
		‘The People Are Changing’
		The News
		Broadcasting and the Press
		Topicality and the BBC
		The ‘Manner’ of the News
		The Holocaust
		The News, Enemies, Allies and Neutrals
		Conclusion: ‘My Country True Or False?’
		Notes
	Chapter 12 Public Service Commerce: ITV, New Audiences and New Revenue
		Austerity, Monopoly and the Beveridge Report
		Coronation
		Commercial Television and the New World
		Competition New and Old
		Commerce and the Audience
		Public Service: Private Enterprise
		New Programmes and the New Style
		End of a Monopoly: Vulgar New World
		Notes
	Chapter 13 Foreign Affairs: The BBC, the World and the Government
		Suez
		Hungarian Uprising
		Security
		Aftermath
		Notes
	Chapter 14 Class, Taste and Profit
		The Myth of the Disappearing Working Class
		The Power of the Media
		Real and False Wants
		Entertainment, Politics and Advertising
		Notes
	Chapter 15 Managers, Regulators and Broadcasters
		Regions and Audiences
		Franchises and Owners
		The Audience That Advertisers Want
		Public Regulation and the Public Interest
		Swinging Sixties and Sober Seventies
		Notes
	Chapter 16 Public Service Under Attack
		Independence, Impartiality and All That Stuff
		Governing
		1979: Ideology Takes Command
		Social Revolution?
		Reform, the War and Education
		Reform, the War and the BBC
		Progress Or Rationalisation?
		Channel 4, Minorities and Money
		Disorder
		Notes
	Chapter 17 Broadcasting Roller-Coaster
		Government Attacks
		Survival Or Sea-Change?
		Managers and the Media
		Managers and Management
		History and Managers
		Leaders
		Who Saved the BBC?
		Notes
Part III Rise of New Media
	Chapter 18 New Media in Britain
		Introduction
		Cable Television
		Satellite Television
		Interactive Digital Television
		Going Digital
		Dotcom Bubble
		Seismic Changes
		Winners and Losers
		Change and Continuity
		Fragmentation and Social Cohesion
		Globalisation and the Nation
		Retrospect
		Notes
	Chapter 19 History of the Internet
		Introduction
		Underlying Science
		Political Economy of Invention
		Military-scientific Complex
		Counterculture
		Public Service Tradition
		Commercial Honeymoon
		Increasing Commercialisation
		Revolt of the Nerds
		Renewal and Compromise
		Recalcitrant Users
		Looking Back
		Notes
	Chapter 20 Sociology of the Internet
		Introduction
		Global Understanding
		Freedom From Place
		Social Emancipation
		Political Emancipation
		Making a Difference
		Economic Transformation
		Generative AI
		Wonders of the Net
		Notes
	Chapter 21 Social Media: Making New Societies Or Polarisation Merchants?
		The Message Is the Community
		Plenty and Silos
		Polarisation
		Helpful and Warm
		Tone
		The State, Governments and Digital Territory
		Attention
		Fit for Purpose Institutions
		Living Together, Accepting Difference
		Notes
Part IV Theories of the Media
	Chapter 22 Metabolising Britishness
		Notes
	Chapter 23 Public Service Understanding: Moonshot Time for the BBC and Public Service Broadcasting
		The Spread of Autocracy
		Follow the Audience
		Manners
		Value-led Technology
		Opportunities for the Future
		Modern Impartiality: Identity and Morality
		Reporting to and From the World
		Paying for Clean Information
		What Is to Be Done?
		Notes
	Chapter 24 Broadcasting and the Theory of Public Service
		The State and Broadcasting
		Accountability and Broadcasting
		Independent Professionals Or Men With an Interest?
		Independence and the Theory of Broadcasting
		Choice Versus Public Service?
		Conclusion
		Notes
Part V Politics of the Media
	Chapter 25 Industrial Folklore and Press Reform
		Public Service Moment
		Radical Keynesian Moment
		Democratising Moment
		Moment of Outrage
		Political Battle
		Capture of the Political Class
		Notes
	Chapter 26 Contradictions in Media Policy
		Introduction
		Ritual Responses
		Short-term Fixes
		Divergent Policy Goals
		State as Threat
		Benign State
		Divergent Histories
		Pressure Groups and Policy
		Continuing Confusion
		Note
	Chapter 27 Media Reform: Democratic Choices
		Introduction
		Free Market
		Public Service Approach
		Social Market
		Radical Visions
		Legal Debate
		Conclusion
		Notes
Bibliography
Index