Title: The media in Britain /
Authors: Tunstall, Jeremy.
Publisher: Columbia University Press,
Year: 1983
Subjects: Mass media Great Britain
Abstract: British newspapers -- The Times, The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, and Financial Times -- have long been considered among the best in the world, and the BBC has become the world's most venerated television and radio organization. In this book Jeremy Tunstall surveys British media since 1945, including television, radio, films, newspapers, and magazines, with the purpose of studying how they operate and what the future holds for them. In the course of the book he discusses such issues as the relationship of politics to the media, media audiences, media biases, control of the media by conglomerates, and policies for the future.
Contents: Introduction -- National myths, media myths -- Media-made politics, politically made media -- Politically made media policy -- Television -- Networked radio, recorded music -- Film:long time a-dying -- Newspapers: slow fade -- Magazines -- Audiences and contexts -- Bias? -- Inequality and ambiguity -- Finance, power, conglomerates -- Control in television and radio -- The regions -- Media policy: tradition and fragmentation -- Foreign media policy -- Domestic media policy: past and future.