TV news, urban conflict, and the inner city
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TV news, urban conflict, and the inner city
（Studies in communication and society）
Leicester University Press, 1993
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.--Centre for Mass Communications Research)
Bibliographical reference: p. [237]-245
Includes indexes
Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The problems and issues of the inner city, particularly crime and serious disorder, are a constant feature of TV news and current affairs programmes in Britain and overseas. This is a study of journalists, programme makers, and senior corporate managers in a major TV company, the programmes they make and the way in which they present to the public an account of the meaning of inner city conflict. The central concern of the book is the creation of meaning: the construction of beliefs about events, problems, crises and places. The author points out how and why the television media have sustained or undermined opposing political viewpoints on the facts, meanings and, hence, appropriate causes of action relating to inner city disorder. His analysis and conclusions will be of interest to broadcasting and print journalists, students of mass media and communication, sociology and urban policy. Dr Simon Cottle lectures on mass communication at Bath College. He has published on the Rushdie affair, TV news and race and TV audience research.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - Approaching television
- urban conflict and the inner city - contested realities. Part 1 TV news production: regional TV news - professionals producing populism
- mediating the inner city - TV news production, mediating the inner city, producing inner city voices. Part 2 TV news portrayal: mediating the inner city - TV news portrayal
- mediating the Handsworth riots - riotous others, silent voices, criminal deeds. Part 3 The wider view: widening the lens - current affairs and documentary
- conclusion - some observations on media theory.
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