Controlling broadcasting : access policy and practice in North America and Europe

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Controlling broadcasting : access policy and practice in North America and Europe

edited by Meryl Aldridge and Nicholas Hewitt

(The Fulbright papers, v. 13)

Manchester University Press , distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1994

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"This volume records the proceedings of the Fulbright Colloquium on Broadcast Media in Britain and the US: Access and Control which was held at the University of Nottingham from 18 to 20 September 1992"--Foreword

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This text assesses the transformation of broadcasting currently taking place in Europe, where deregulation, coupled with advances in satellite, cable and video technology, promises consumer choice on an American scale. The contributors, from the UK, France, the US and Canada, explore the paradoxes of the new era in broadcasting. Competition from more channels is leading to less diversity in programming; ensuring a voice for minority groups and interests is requiring elaborate regulation; and the creation of a free market in the EC is spawning an array of inconsistent statutes. The writers show how broadcasting remains political; governments strive to keep control, particularly over television, because of its assumed importance in forming public attitudes. Whatever the rhetoric, they suggest, images of elections, of war and of terrorism will be tightly managed.

Table of Contents

  • Corporate dynamics and broadcasting futures, Graham Murdock
  • mediating the ordinary - the "Access" idea and television form, John Corner
  • media and social order in everyday life, Robert P. Snow
  • the media and the public interest - questions of access and control, Ralph Negrine
  • understanding "terrorism" - contrasting audience interpretations of the televised conflict in Northern Ireland, David Miller
  • the (almost) invisible candidate - a case study in news judgement as political censorship, Joshua Meyrowitz
  • an institutional perspective on news media access and control, Richard V. Ericson
  • postjournalism - journalism is dead, long live journalism! the Gulf War in perspective, David L. Altheide
  • television, identity and diversity in the United States and Canada, Marjorie Ferguson
  • two types of freedom - broadcasting organisation and policy on both sides of the Atlantic, Richard Collins
  • the Council of Europe's Convention on trans-frontier television and the European Community Broadcasting Directive, James Michael
  • communications and access - pre-empting the debate - the role and strategies of euro-media lobbies, Michael Palmer
  • government and broadcast media in France, Jean-Claude Sergeant.

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