First published in 1991, The Stalker Affair and the Press documents
the media treatment of police constable John Stalker's removal from
his job and argues that this case presents a major difficulty for
the standard academic analysis of the press in Britain: namely that
it supports the status quo because it is part of the dominant class
system. The author argues that the exclusion of non-official and
dissident versions of the events can be explained by more direct
causes: the ownership of the press and the routine nature of normal
news production, which relies on official and established sources.
Where such sources do not produce an account of events, as in the
case of the Stalker affair, the overwhelming majority of press
output questioned the legitimacy of state actions, even to the
extent of entertaining the notion that its agents had conspired to
commit murder and to pervert the course of justice. David Murphy's
fascinating analysis picks apart the notion of a 'system'
controlling production to demonstrate the complex interaction
between methods of individual journalists, their sources and the
ways news is produced. This book will be of great interest to
students and teachers of media studies, cultural studies,
journalism, and communication studies.
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