Media Power, Professionals, and Policies

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Howard Tumber
Psychology Press, 2000 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 342 pages
The work of Jeremy Tunstall, one of the founding fathers of British media studies, is the inspiration behind Media Power, Professionals and Policies. In this collection of new work, leading international contributors address the central themes of Tunstall's work; the history, structures and practices of the international media industry, the relationship between media and government, and the sociology of labour in the media industry.
 

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PART II
6
premature obsequies? 19
19
a study of failure 335
35
US communications industry ownership and the 1996
56
Power and policy in the British music industry
70
British press and privacy
84
The nation and communicative space
99
what has changed?
116
publicity interests public images
190
newsworkers media and patronage
209
The Washington reporters redux 197898
225
a practitioners account
236
a cautionary tale
259
present thoughts
281
media images
295
the dialectics of identity
314

what
151
Political advertising at the end of the twentieth century
167

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Howard Tumbler is Professor of Sociology and Dean of the School of Social and Human Sciences at City University, London

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