JOMEC, Cardiff: Crucial texts in media-politics

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Constructing Public Opinion: How Political Elites Do What They Like and Why We Seem to Go Along with it
1.  Constructing Public Opinion: How Political Elites Do What They Like and Why We Seem to Go Along with it by Justin Lewis
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  "Informed, incisive and extremely readable - A JOMEC must. Helpful in understanding exactly how public opinion is managed and hegemony is maintained"
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
2.  Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky
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  "Immense...very firmly at the core of the JOMEC cannon."
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Hegemony or Survival : America's Quest for Global Dominance
3.  Hegemony or Survival : America's Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky
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  "Don't approach issues surrounding international relations without it. A nice bit of Chomsky. Typically revealing and critical if spoilt at times but an unncessarily ironic and superior tone."
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My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism
4.  My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism by Andrew Marr
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  "Fascinating review of British journalism from the inside. Crucial alternative to more left-wing, structuralist accounts. You wont find this on reading lists but it's an important read in my view."
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Web Of Deceit: Britain's Real Foreign Policy: Britain's Real Role in the World
5.  Web Of Deceit: Britain's Real Foreign Policy: Britain's Real Role in the World by Mark Curtis
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  "Informed review of recent British foreign policy and the role of the media. Helpful in relating Chomskian analysis to the details of British foreign policy and media coverage."
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The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth-maker from the Crimea to the Gulf War II
6.  The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth-maker from the Crimea to the Gulf War II by Phillip Knightley
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  "Lengthy but important starting-point for dicussion of war reporting"
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Packaging Politics: Political Communications in Britian's Media Democracy
7.  Packaging Politics: Political Communications in Britian's Media Democracy by Franklin Bob
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  "One of the best reviews of contemporary political communication and advertising"
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Diana's Mourning: A People's History
8.  Diana's Mourning: A People's History by James Thomas
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  "A revealing study of a monumental media event"
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Power Without Responsibility: Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain: The Press and Broadcasting in Britain
9.  Power Without Responsibility: Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain: The Press and Broadcasting in Britain by James Curran
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  "Indispensable. Perhaps the best review of the British media. Crops up on just about every course."
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Blair's Wars
10.  Blair's Wars by John Kampfner
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  "Cracking insight into the road to war and the mechanics of policy-making"
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