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Do the Press have a case for asserting their right and moral
obligation to call figures in the public eye to account? Or is it
time for the government to abandon the Press Complaints Commission
and introduce some legislation to deal with the problem? Is there
really a problem?The question of the accountability and regulation
of the Press has become a central theme of contemporary life and is
the focus of this new book.
This volume of collected essays provides a wide-ranging survey of
the state of radio and television, especially the idea of public
service broadcasting, and of news, current affairs and documentary
programming in America, Australia, the UK and the rest of western
Europe. Among the key issues it addresses are the 'dumbing down' of
TV news, the infotainment factor in current affairs shows and the
disappearance of the documentary. Using contemporary cases and
examples - from the row over the scheduling of News at Ten in the
UK to the creation of ABC News Online in Australia -- the essays
link the performance of radio and television at the turn of the
millennium with the processes of deregulation, liberalisation and
digitalisation which have been evident since the 1980s. Working
from a much needed and original comparative approach which
encompasses complex and well-established public broadcasting in the
USA as well as emerging and vulnerable participatory radio stations
in El Salvador, the book sets a variety of experiences of factual
radio and television programming within wider political and
cultural contexts. It offers analyses of not only the 'problems'
associated with news, current affairs and documentary broadcasting
in an era of a declining public service ethos and the apparent
triumph of the market, however. The essays also explore the
potential of alternative radio and television, new forms of
communication, such as the internet, and changing practices among
journalists and programme makers, as well as the resilience of
public broadcasting and the powers of the public to ensure that the
media remain relevant and accountable. A companion text to the
bestselling Sex, Lies and Democracy: The Press and the Public, this
volume presents a multi-faceted approach to the tumultuous present
and the uncertain future of news, current affairs and documentary
in radio and television.
Do the Press have a case for asserting their right and moral
obligation to call figures in the public eye to account? Or is it
time for the government to abandon the Press Complaints Commission
and introduce some legislation to deal with the problem? Is there
really a problem?
The question of the accountability and regulation of the Press has
become a central theme of contemporary life and is the focus of
this new book.
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