The Politics of Information: Problems of Policy in Modern Media

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Audience as Tyrant — an Elitist View of Television....Pages 3-10
Television as a Machine of Social Regulation....Pages 11-23
The Management of Television in a Democratic Society....Pages 24-37
The Finance of Television....Pages 38-44
Social Accountability and Television....Pages 45-53
The German Television Producer and the Problem of ‘Internal Democracy’....Pages 54-73
Management and Creativity in Television....Pages 74-83
A Maturing Telocracy —Observations on the Television Coverage of the British General Elections of 1974....Pages 84-105
Television Coverage of Northern Ireland....Pages 106-128
Community Conflict and the Media....Pages 129-140
Front Matter....Pages 141-141
News Values and the Ethic of Journalism — a View of the Western Tradition....Pages 143-156
State Intervention and the Management of the Press....Pages 157-176
The Long Road to Objectivity and Back Again — the Kinds of Truth We Get in Journalism....Pages 177-198
Technology, Distribution and Editorial Control: their Interactions in the Evolution of Journalism....Pages 199-223
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
Needs, Wants, Demands,Luxuries and Scarce Natural Resources....Pages 227-238
Back Matter....Pages 239-252