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Democracy under Attack: How the Media Distort Policy and Politics Paperback – Illustrated, 27 Mar. 2013

by Malcolm Dean (Author)
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"Malcolm Dean's fascinating book explores an under-discussed dimension of politics -- how policy and political decisions are shaped by the popular media. Many of his examples should cause us great concern." --Baroness Shirley Williams

"Malcolm Dean had a media seat in the stalls of social policy through four tumultuous decades. He's been there, seen it - and knows it better than anyone. A vital subject: a definitive book." --Peter Preston, former editor of The Guardian

"Malcolm Dean has been uniquely well-placed to witness innumerable policy successes and failures, and the often distorted lens through which they have been covered by the media. This thoughtful and wise book will be invaluable for anyone working in the media who's involved in explaining social policy, and to anyone involved in social policy who needs to get the media on their side." --Geoff Mulgan, Chief Executive of NESTA and former Director of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit and the Cabinet Office's Strategy Unit in Tony Blair's Government

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Malcolm Dean joined The Guardian newspaper in 1969 where he served as roving reporter, social affairs leader-writer and assistant editor. He became Special Adviser to the Health and Social Services Secretary in 1978/79. Returning to the paper in 1979 post election, he launched its Society section, a highly successful weekly supplement specialising in social policy, which he edited for most of its first 20 years as well as writing daily editorials. He retired in 2006 to take up a fellowship at Nuffield College, Oxford, where he is still an associate. He has served on numerous social policy working parties and was chair of a Joseph Rowntree Foundation commission on older people.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Policy Press
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 27 Mar. 2013
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ Illustrated
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 544 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1847428495
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1847428493
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 567 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 3.12 x 19.8 cm
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  • A. T. Corley
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 July 2017
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    Arrived on time and in good condition. Very happy. Thanks
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  • Steve
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 June 2016
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    A very interesting read. Informative and educational too.
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  • David McKie
    3.0 out of 5 stars Overdue, and overwhelming
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 January 2012
    The indictment in this book of the way the press -- particularly, but by no means exclusively, the tabloid press-- has over many years skewed its coverage of social policy issues, often through delibersate misrepresentation, to fit its own agenda, has been made before, but never with such detailed documentation as Malcolm Dean (a colleage of mine for many years at the Guardian) provides here -- and certainly not by one who through this whole period was a working journalist, specialising in the same field. The book was well under way before there began to emerge the shameful record of Press malpractice that is now the subject of the Leveson inquiry.The damage that the News of the World and possibly other newspapers have done in that context is now universally known. The damage done in the context that this book examines, so much less analysed and discussed, deserves the same exposure; and gets it here.
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  • michael corniosh
    5.0 out of 5 stars Democracy under attack: a tour de force
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 December 2011
    For professionals in politics and the media, and academics in both fields as well as concerned outsiders such as I, this enlightening and perceptive book is surely a 'must read'. Malcolm Dean's authoritative analysis offers practical ways forward from the present corrosive mess. A tour de force in every sense. Michael Cornish
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  • David Roberts
    4.0 out of 5 stars Murdoch the monster
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 February 2012
    Malcolm Dean writes with style and wit on the difficulties politicians face introducing 'sensible' social policies. By 'sensible' Dean means policies of the liberal left Guardian opinion-maker.

    Blair is one of Dean's main villains. He found it easier to go for crowd-pleasing policies on sentencing, crime and punishment rather than appreciate the real causes behind social unrest.

    With the minimum of jargon and using amusing stories of how politicians - even David Blunkett - find it almost impossible to put in place 'liberal' policies, Democracy Under Attack is a surprisingly racy read. Dean blames the Murdoch press for hysterical right-wing opposition to what every Guardian reader sees as common sense. He says that democracy requires unbiased fairly set out facts but selective reporting makes a nonsense of this ambition. What Dean calls 'scapegoat reporting' sells newspapers while fair reporting is 'dull'.

    My criticism would only be that he too can be biased - always against the Murdoch press, he builds it up as the Tolkien-like monster which has defeated rational social policy. He calls one section 'A moment to savour' and says with evident relish 'the most powerful media man in the West has been curbed; British politicians had recovered their nerve to help cut him down.' I think by laying so much of the blame for the decline of everything Dean values on Murdoch he is beating his fists against a mythical monster. Murdoch gives the British public what it wants. He runs a business not a moral crusade.

    However, this is finely argued book full of guts and venom which makes very good reading. I would love to have seen Dean argue the toss with Christopher Hitchens but sadly this cannot be. Most leftwing critics become rightwing in their old age so it is good to see that at least one such still has his ideals nailed to the mast even if the pirates are swarming over the deck.
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  • McAndrew
    5.0 out of 5 stars Landmark Publication
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 December 2011
    I nearly didn't open this book but I am glad I did because it is a landmark publication. It surely must become a bible for anyone with an interest in the media, politics, the law or just old fashioned decency and integrity as an integral part of democracy. With the Leveson Inquiry sitting it becomes a very topical book and someone will surely add it to their evidence. The major fault line between press and politics revealed by the book makes phone hacking look like a troublesome but relatively minor excess.
    Dean is well known for his contribution to thinking and policy on social issues via the comment and editorial pages of the Guardian and the book makes clear his expertise in both journalism and politics gained from direct and long experience.
    His list of the seven deadly sins the press is inclined to is all the more shameful given most of us knew at least some of this stuff. Assembled together and with well researched evidence to illustrate his thesis this book has a worrying impact on the individual conscience. What impact it will make on plastic politicians and press managers untroubled by hacking the phone of a murdered teenager and content with lies trumping truth if it improves circulation remains to be seen. Dean quotes Stein Ringen. a Norwegian Oxford Don, who sees the British press as, amongst other things, "vibrant, brilliant, independent, irreverent, often funny and thank God intrusive". This book is, thank God, in that tradition. Without those qualities we would not have the Leveson Inquiry and our politicians would still feel that they needed to be permanently on their knees in the presence of Murdoch and his minions.
    To avoid my first inclination not to read the book, first throw away the weird dust jacket, after that it gets better and better and for me it now sits on the shelf as a reference work.

    Brian McAndrew 01/12/11
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