The Known World of Broadcast News: International News and the Electronic Media

ISBN-13: 9780415036047 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 267 str.

Roger Wallis; Stanley J. Baran

Opis

Radio and television news are expanding everywhere, often at the expense of print media. Developments in global communications, in theory at least, have made the world smaller. An event anywhere can theoretically be reported anywhere else on radio within minutes; on television within hours. But theory and practice are often far apart. Broadcast news has become a global business, almost like the music industry, with its own Top 10 and an inevitable streamlining of taste. A few major organizations control the newsflow.

Recenzje

`This book is a disturbing insight into worldwide news and how it is selected.' - Press and Journal

Spis treści

1 A day in the life of the world 2 Broadcast news in the USA: turmoil, realignment, and restructuring of the traditional operators 3 The traditional news broadcasters in Britain: new establishments fighting older institutions 4 Medium-sized traditional operators in Europe: the example of broadcast news in Sweden 5 Challenging the traditional broadcasters: new players in the news game 6 The international news broadcasters: information, disinformation, and improvised truth 7 Meeting the elephant: broadcast news views the World 8 Which news and why? Understanding the forces that shape the news, Epilogue: What will we know? What should we know? Comparing broadcast news to developments in other media sectors, Postscript: A challenge to European traditions of broadcasting

O autorze

Roger Wallis is BBC correspondent in Sweden, a journalist for Swedish radio, and a frequent contributor to National Public Radio in the US. He has covered news-making events all over the world. He is also currently completing a PhD in Mass Communications at Gothenberg University, Sweden. Stanley Baran is Head of the Theatre Arts Department, at San Jose State University, in the US. He has published numerous books and articles on the effects of the media.