Sex, Lies and Democracy: The Press and the Public

ISBN-13: 9781138467040 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020

Hugh Stephenson

Opis

The question of the regulation of the press is the focus of this book. It examines the existing systems of regulation and the contexts in which they have developed, and explores the social responsibility of the press by assessing its relationship to democracy within Britain.

Spis treści

Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART! THE PRESS AND ITS DISCONTENTS -- CHAPTER 1 Tickle the public: consumerism rules -- /Hugh Stephenson -- CHAPTER 2 The 'tabloiding' of Britain: 'quality' newspapers in the 1990s -- /Michael Bromley -- CHAPTER 3 Demographics and values: what the British public reads and what it thinks about its newspapers -- /Robert M. Worcester -- CHAPTER4 An overview of the current debate on press regulation in France -- /Christophe Texier -- PART II PRESS REGULATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY -- CHAPTER 5 Managing the press in a medium-sized European Power -- /John Tulloch -- CHAPTER 6 Demanding accountability: the press, the Royal -- Commissions and the pressure for reform, 1945-77 -- /Tom O'Malley -- CHAPTER 7 Kith and sin: press accountability in the USA -- /Walter Jaehnig -- CHAPTERS Media quality control in the USA and Europe -- /Claude-Jean Bertrand -- PART III PEOPLE AND PROCESSES IN ACCOUNTABILITY -- CHAPTER9 Interpreting codes of conduct -- /Adrian Page -- CHAPTER 10 Teaching ethics to journalists in the United Kingdom -- /Barbara Thomas -- CHAPTER 11 'Watching the watchdogs'? The role of readers' letters in calling the press to account -- /Michael Bromley -- CHAPTER 12 Democracy under threat -- /Andrew Calcutt -- Appendix 1: The Press Complaints Commission Code of Practice, 1995 -- Appendix 2: The National Union of Journalists' Code of Conduct -- Index.

O autorze

Stephenson, Hugh