Despite the inexorable rise of the internet and new media, television remains the most trusted and most dominant source of news and information about our world, our nation and even our region. Television journalism, therefore, matters. Using the UK as a historical and institutional case study, this book explores the history of television journalism. Barnett compares the two very different trajectories of television journalism in Britain and the US: their different values, approaches to regulation and audiences, their resources, outputs and editorial cultures. The Rise and Fall of Television Journalism finds that British television journalism is endangered by an unthinking attachment to deregulation and free market politics. It argues that, having started from a very different set of regulatory and institutional practices, Britain is in danger of heading down the American road. As a result, British public life will be diminished.
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An admirably clear and unsentimental account of British broadcast journalism's past - and a very timely warning about its future. --Richard Tait, Director of the Centre for Journalism, Cardiff University, UK
This is a fine study of the development of British broadcasting at a time of technological upheaval and profound political change, which will run into multiple editions. --Professor James Curran, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Given the turbulent period of change that journalism has been and continues to be going through, this book offers valuable context for understanding how these developments impact on the nature of journalism and media roles in public/political debate. --Anders Hansen, University of Leicester, UK
This is a fine study of the development of British broadcasting at a time of technological upheaval and profound political change, which will run into multiple editions. --Professor James Curran, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Given the turbulent period of change that journalism has been and continues to be going through, this book offers valuable context for understanding how these developments impact on the nature of journalism and media roles in public/political debate. --Anders Hansen, University of Leicester, UK
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Steven Barnett is Professor of Communications at the University of Westminster, UK, and a prominent writer and broadcaster who has specialised in media policy, politics and journalism for more than 25 years.
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Prof Barnett has produced a tour de force;an academic book about the media which is connected to and informed by reality and readable!.He is no ivory tower prof and this shows his 'hackademic' qualities at their best.This book should be on all reading lists for every journalism course at all universities.Media studies ones too.A true labour of love.
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An eloquent and fully informed rebuttal to those who think that user generated content and the blogosphere can ever replace the important role of TV journalism with professional values. As Professor Barnett shows, the latter continues to be essential for an informed democracy, and TV itself will continue to play a critical role, despite those to think it will decline. In light of the recent Murdoch melt-down in the UK, this book provides a valuable summary of where we are in TV journalism and where we need to be. Highly recommended.
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