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