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'Get Me A Murder A Day ' the famous motto of Lord Northcliffe, founder of the Daily Mail, says it all. Murder, sex and scandal seem to be the mass media's staple diet in Britain. Now we have 24-hour news television, podcasts and blogs enabling constant communication and consumer comment. To understand how we got to this, we need to start from the beginning. Tracing the history of the print, broadcast and film industries, this book offers a concise and enjoyable introduction to mass communication in Britain. It outlines the main landmarks in the development of the media, the changing nature...

This Text-book traces the evolution of the newspaper, documenting its changing form, style and content as well as identifying the different roles ascribed to it by audiences, government and other social institutions.

Starting with the early 17^th century, when the first prototype newspapers emerged, through Dr Johnson, the growth of the radical press in the early 19^th century, the Lord Northcliffe revolution in the early 20^th century, the newspapers wars of the 1930s and the rise of the tabloid in the 1970s, right up to Rupert Murdoch and the...

Journalism history is mostly examined from a national perspective, but the boundaries of the profession have been porous from the very earliest days of the regular publication of news. This book examines the variety of influences from different societies that have shaped the development of journalism from the newsletters and corantos of early 17th-century Europe to the techniques of digital news gathering and dissemination today. A Global History of Journalism examines how the profession has incorporated practices, styles and modes of operation from diverse cultures. It provides a...

This is an accessible introduction to the different theories of the mass media. It seeks to emphasize the importance of using theory not only to make sense of the role of media in society but also to understand particular aspects of mass communication.

The work of Michael Oakeshott has retained a striking currency in philosophical discourse about education. This is hardly surprising in view of his influence on Paul Hirst and Richard Peters, two philosophers whose work had an enormous impact on educational thinking and practice in the English-speaking world. And, although much of the detail in educational debate may change, the fundamental underlying concerns regarding the conception of the person, the nature of knowledge and the moral life and their expression in educational institutions and activities remain subject of disagreement. In...