Getting the Message: News, Truth, and PowerJohn Eldridge The work of the Glasgow Media Group has long established their place at the forefront of Media Studies, and Getting the Message provides an ideal introduction to recent work by the Group. Contributors discuss themes such as the relationship between the media and public opinion, the emergence of TV news formats and styles, and the relations between theory and method in media research. Recent work undertaken by the Group on the media's role in reporting on AIDS, Vietnam, Northern Ireland and the Gulf War is also represented. In its fresh approach to the relationship between journalists and their sources and occupation analysis, the collection also illuminates how the earlier work of the group has been extended, and the ways in which its research has developed both individually and collectively. Getting the Message offers an invaluable and far-reaching exploration of the inter-relations between the production of media messages and their reception - an invaluable guide for any study of the development of media theory. |
Contents
Chapter 1 News truth and power | 3 |
whose agenda? | 29 |
strategies and tactics | 44 |
Chapter 3 Reform and restructuring in the Soviet media | 46 |
Chapter 4 The Northern Ireland Information Service and the media | 63 |
Chapter 5 From Buerk to Band Aid | 92 |
Chapter 6 Negotiating HIVAIDS information | 113 |
content and formats | 129 |
Chapter 9 AIDS and the British press | 191 |
opinion and understanding | 228 |
Chapter 10 Getting the message | 230 |
Chapter 11 Understanding AIDS | 246 |
Chapter 12 The light at the end of the tunnel | 278 |
Part V Conclusion | 298 |
Chapter 13 Whose illusion? whose reality? | 300 |
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