Glasgow Media Group Reader, Volume 1: News Content, Language and Visuals
This first volume of clasic articles by the Glasgow University Media Group focuses on issues of news content, language and the role of visual images in news reporting. It also includes an introduction to the Group's work by John Eldridge.
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The work and methodology of the Glasgow University Media Group has become a core part of many media and journalism studies courses, and their contribution to our understanding of the relationship between mass media and society is widely acknowledged. In recent years, their assertion of the role the media plays in shaping the audience's understanding of current affairs has provided a crucial counter argument to such theorists of postmodernity as Jean Baudrillard. The Glasgow Media Reader: Volume 1 looks at key articles and writings by members of the Group from the early 1970s to the present, making available material from the Group's classic but now out-of-print books. This volume focuses on issues of news content, language and the role of visual images in news reporting. It includes a comprehensive introduction by John Eldridge to the Group's work over the past two decades, and concludes with Raymond Williams' classic article, Isn't the News Terrible.
List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1'And now they're out again': industrial news32'Reasonable men and responsible citizens': economic news213Audience beliefs and the 1984/5 miners' strike374The media and Northern Ireland: censorship, information management and the broadcasting ban455The Falklands War: making good news766The Falklands War: the home front: i. images of women in wartime102The Falklands War: the home front: ii. public opinion1027The British media and the Gulf War1468Political news: Labour politics on television1599The media in a class society17610Political advertising and popular belief18411Television, politics and the rise of the New Right198Index234
